TX - Sex offender Michael Twing "Krogen" who posed as girl's college soccer recruiter pleads guilty to receiving child *advertiser censored* - 7/15/22

[Bishop Black]

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article263507318.html

A registered sex offender who posed as a girls’ soccer college recruiter in North Texas has pleaded guilty to receiving child , federal officials said Friday. Michael Ansley Twing, who went by the name “Michael Krogen,” entered his plea Wednesday on a federal charge of receipt of child before Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cureton.

According to federal court documents, Twing — who was already a registered sex offender based on a previous offense in the Amarillo, Texas area — acquired sexually explicit images of underage girls on his laptop. The files were downloaded via eMule, a file-sharing program similar to BitTorrent.

At a detention hearing, federal prosecutors introduced evidence showing that Twing had been posing as a recruiter for a local university under the name “Michael Krogen.”

In his bedroom, agents recovered a note on university letterhead in which Twing, writing under his alias, claimed to be a recruiter. They also found a roster of high school soccer players and identified at least one text in which Twing asked a coach for contact info for a student.

Authorities asked residents that if anyone was aware of a juvenile who may have had inappropriate contact with Twing, who also went by “Michael Krogen” or “Christopher Michael Crogen,” at a soccer tournament or elsewhere to please contact Crimestoppers at 817-469-8477 or www.469TIPS.com

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