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• Pierce County fugitive arrested in Minneapolis

By Jason Schulte, RiverTown Styaff

A 46-year-old man who has been a Pierce County fugitive for over two months was arrested in Minneapolis last week, the Prescott Police Department announced.

Michael D. Condon, Sr., River Falls, was arrested on 2 p.m. June 24 in Minneapolis by members of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department Fugitive Task Force following a joint investigation into his whereabouts by the task force and the Prescott Police Department.

Condon was taken to Hennepin County Jail on the Pierce County warrant as well as a Goodhue County (MN) warrant.

He was charged last June in Pierce County Circuit Court with six counts of possession of child pornography (two were later dismissed) from when he was living in Prescott. Condon failed to show for a court appearance on April 18, thus causing the warrant.

According to the criminal complaint, Prescott police interviewed Condon at the Dakota County Jail in Hastings, Minn., last May, where he was being booked on a separate incident.

Condon initially told police he looked at pornography, but there was nothing serious about it.

"I just look at websites, just like anybody else," he said. "When they're offensive to me, I stop looking at them."

He then said that he didn't save the images on the computer and deleted the history after visiting those sites so his children wouldn't see it.

Later in the interview, police pressed him about what would be on the computers. He stated one would find mainly e-mails, his work Web site and no downloaded pictures.

Police asked again and after listing business and Google-related searches, he said "you know as well as I do your (sic) going to get porn."

For more please read the July 9 print edition of the Pierce County Herald.