Transnational crime syndicate linked to police and public officials in Polk County Minnesota - BCA crime lab documents key evidence
By Timothy Charles Holmseth on July 17, 2018 at 1:12 P.M. CST
An organized transnational crime syndicate that traffics children across national land borders and overseas on international flights has been linked to Polk County, Minnesota.
Key evidence comes from Drew Evans, superintendant, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) - the agency that operates the State's forensic crime lab.
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| Drew Evans, Superintendant of BCA |
The crime syndicate involves Ronald Galstad, the attorney for the City of East Grand Forks and Sgt. Aeisso Schrage, an officer for the East Grand Forks Police who is also the commander of the Minnesota Pine to Prairie Task Force.
EARLY DAYS
The fact something was amiss initially became visible in 2013 when the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) flatly rejected a claim by East Grand Forks City Attorney Ronald Galstad that the BCA was assisting the police with an operation to search the computer of a journalist and FBI witness from East Grand Forks named Timothy Holmseth.
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| EGF City Attorney Ron Galstad |
Galstad is an attorney with Galstad Jensen and McCann and contracts with the City of EGF to prosecute crimes alleged by the local police.
Galstad falsely claimed an association with the BCA during a court hearing on January 4, 2013 at the courthouse in Polk County. Galstad told Assistant Chief District Judge Tamara Yon he and the police were working with the BCA regarding Holmseth's computer which had been seized by the Pine to Prairie Task Force on December 14, 2012.
Holmseth was/is a local journalist that had conducted hours of interviews with key figures in a national profile kidnapping case involving a missing five year-old from Florida named HaLeigh Cummings who vanished in 2009. Holmseth was interviewed by the Minneapolis FBI on several occasions and deemed a credible witness.
However - emails from 2009 show Lt. Rodney Hajicek, the ranking officer at the EGFPD, was secretly communicating with a CNN journalist named Art Harris regarding Holmseth. Emails from Hajicek's private Gmail account show the two men were discussing how Holmseth could be "stopped" after they learned the FBI in Florida was using information Holmseth obtained and turned over to the feds.
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Holmseth had been told, during telephonic interview, the minute details of an international child sex trafficking and baby sales operation that was staging out of Broward County, Florida. He was also told that a lawyer from Florida possessed child rape porn of HaLeigh Cummings.
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Records show Galstad and the EGFPD obtained a search and seizure warrant from Minnesota District Judge Jeff Remick for Holmseth's computer - but the warrant made no mention of the child porn. Rather, it was drafted to make Holmseth appear to be a drug dealer.
On January 4, 2013, Galstad told Judge Yon the police were coordinating with the BCA to have a forensic search done of the computer which already been in police custody for several weeks.
“I’ve just been notified that the BCA, before they’ll do a forensic search of that computer, wants either an Order of this court, or a search warrant that says they can - - we got the original search warrant, but for whatever reason the BCA wants something that says that they can actually search that hard-drive. So I am going to be either, one, asking - - or requesting an additional warrant for forensic search of that computer hard-drive or the Court can make that Order as they see fit, but I’m going to be doing that,” court transcripts reveal.
Galstad was lying to the Judge.
And the proof he was lying comes from the superintendent of the BCA.
Drew Evans, superintendent, BCA, said the BCA played no role in the operation and knew nothing about it. "Mr. Holmseth - we were not asked to conduct a forensic examination of your computer," Evans said in a 2013 email.
However, the Pine to Prairie Task Force commander, Sgt. Aeisso Schrage, had attached MDPS/BCA stickers to evidence seized from Holmseth.
Jill Oliveira, the public information officer for the MNDPS/BCA said, "The BCA had no role in the investigation you describe and did not attach any tags to evidence in that case".
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Galstad never carried through on requesting a second warrant for the BCA as he claimed he was going to do.
But - there was significant activity surrounding the computer.
Records from the Polk County Sheriff's Office show Sgt. Investigator Michael Norland was asked to search Holmseth's computer. "I looked through the computer and did not find anything that would show illegal activity on the computer," Norland said.
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EGFPD Chief Michael Hedlund would eventually be asked for chain of custody records regarding Holmseth's property. Hedlund admitted in a letter to Holmseth that no chain of custody documentation was kept.
Holmseth's computer was ordered returned in April of 2013 but the police had rendered it inoperable - thus marooning all of Holmseth's investigative files.
CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING - THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS
Evidence shows the police seized Holmseth's computer because they were looking for the pornography of HaLeigh Cummings, which they believed had been sent to Holmseth. It was a gamble they lost that exposed their motive to cover-up an entire child sex trafficking operation.
The warrant signed by Judge Remick made no mention of child pornography, rather, created the appearance Holmseth was a drug dealer.
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Information about the child porn was not included in the application for the warrant because Sgt. Schrage and Galstad did not want to reveal the identity of their source - because the source was the trafficker(s) that kidnapped, raped, and trafficked the little girl.
The conspirators were all connected to an Indiana corporation called Specialized Investigative Consultants Inc. Evidence shows members of the operation were in regular and secret back channel communications with Galstad and the EGFPD from 2009 through 2018.
MAKING A MURDERER
The plan was cynical and was intended to frame Holmseth for kidnapping, rape, production of child porn, and murder.
In 2011, Tina Church, president, Specialized Investigative Consultants, telephoned the EGFPD and falsely reported that Holmseth claimed to have the missing child HaLeigh Cummings in his home. Police, including Sgt. Schrage, went to Holmseth's home to search for the child and then filed a report.
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Sgt. Schrage and other EGFPD officers subsequently filed police reports based upon alleged anonymous calls to the police reporting a strong smell of marijuana coming from Holmseth's apartment door, which generated police reports that made Holmseth appear to be involved with drugs.
During this same time window Holmseth was accused of allowing child sex abuse in his home. Records from Grand Forks County Social Services ultimately revealed that not only was there no abuse - Holmseth and his children received a 100% perfect score for no signs of abuse. The case was closed with the signatures of a nine person child protection team that includes CPS, psychologist, doctor, police, sheriff.
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Building on the false police and CPS reports... in 2011, a person that had been identified by a legal assistant in Florida as possessing child pornography of HaLeigh Cummings, petitioned a Broward County domestic violence court for an Injunction For Protection Against Repeat Violence against Holmseth. 'Repeat Violence' is a Florida dating law that did not apply to Holmseth because he had no relationship with Petitioner and had not been to Florida.
However - Judge Michael Kaplan in Broward County, Florida granted the Order in Holmseth's absence which made it illegal for Holmseth to publish information and select names regarding what he learned about the missing child and an international trafficking operation.
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Wayanne Kruger, a child victims advocate that traveled from Arizona to assist the mother of HaLeigh Cummings, told Holmseth during recorded interviews she was working with the Florida law office that allegedly possessed the child porn.
Kruger, who was the client and protégé of Attorney Gloria Allred, provided Holmseth names, dates, methods, and tactics of a vast child trafficking and baby sales operation that moved children through the U.S. Embassy in New York and across the border into Mexican and Central America.
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| Victims Advocate and Author Wayanne Kruger (right) with Crystal Sheffield, mother, missing child HaLeigh Cummings |
The operation involved operatives that dressed as clergy and identified themselves and CIA and FBI.
Kruger has been featured in People magazine, Washington Times, and other publications for her relationship with Allred and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Kruger told Holmseth HaLeigh Cummings had been raped and was "hemorrhaging".
HOLMSETH ARRESTED IN 2018
In 2017, Holmseth located back-up files of his interviews with all the members of trafficking operation including an attorney from Florida, Kruger, and Church.
In July, 2017 Holmseth submitted the damning audio evidence of child sex trafficking he recovered, in support of a Motion To Vacate he filed with the Minnesota court in Polk County. Judge Yon classified the audio as "significant evidence" from Holmseth's "investigations" and ruled in his favor.
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On February 19, 2018 the police in East Grand Forks arrested Holmseth for violating the Florida court order after Holmseth allegedly published the court records on the Web using You Tube.
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Galstad is the prosecutor.
The person named as possessing child porn of HaLeigh Cummings is the 'victim'.
Holmseth is presently represented by public defender Gretchen Handy, Handy Law Group.
Holmseth is also presently the plaintiff in a federal lawsuit he filed through his trial attorney Steven S. Biss in Virginia.