Palouse man charged for child porn

PALOUSE — Child pornography was found on a computer and a thumb drive in a Palouse home.

Karl J. Wesley, 63, of Palouse, was charged in Whitman County Superior Court with five counts of possession of child pornography on Monday.

Moscow police’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC) told the sheriff’s office they found a person accessing and sharing child pornography through the internet in Whitman County.

“It was later determined that the location and likely subscriber to the internet IP address was associated with an individual from Palouse,” stated Whitman County Sheriff Brett M...