Minnesota state trooper Jeremy Francis Plonski now faces a four-count federal indictment charging him with producing and distributing child pornography that state charges say involves an infant.
Plonski, 29, of Shakopee, was initially charged May 1 in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis by criminal complaint with one count of producing child pornography. He was charged in Scott County District Court the next day with first-degree criminal sexual conduct of a minor.
Jeremy Francis Plonski (Courtesy of the Sherburne County Sheriff’s Office)
Plonski was indicted on the four counts Thursday, and he remains jailed ahead of future hearings.
The federal charges remains sealed from public view; however, the state criminal complaint provides details into the related cases.
FBI special agents in Houston on April 30 began forensically analyzing a cellphone in an investigation into child sexual abuse materials. Federal law enforcement identified Plonski as the suspect and found several videos of him sexually assaulting an infant girl.
Plonski told law enforcement he sent four or five videos of him sexually assaulting the infant in his home to someone he met on the social media application Kik in 2022. He said after recording and sending the “four or five” incidents, “which he believed was sometime in 2022,” he “ceased all sexual contact with victim and has not touched her since,” the complaint says.
Plonski became a state trooper in 2022 and is on leave, with an internal affairs investigation underway.
He faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in federal prison if convicted, according to prosecutors.
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