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spiration," Dupree said. "But this is not really about the barrels, this is about them trying to maintain a monopoly."
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1 man in child exploitation network from Minnesota
• MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Authorities say one of 14 men charged with operating an online child exploitation network was arrested in Minnesota.
• Details of the operation were announced Tuesday. The investigation led by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Postal Inspection Service saved 250 victims across 39 states and five other countries.
• Minnesota ICE spokesman Shawn Neudauer says 12 victims are from Minnesota. They include girls and boys, with an average age ranging from 13 to 16. They are from across Minnesota and all walks of life.
• Neudauer says there were 12 victims in North Dakota, two in South Dakota, six in Iowa and eight in Wisconsin.
• Authorities say the defendants used an underground network, posed online as girls and coerced the victims into sharing sexually explicit images of themselves.
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South Dakota fugitive captured in northwest Iowa
• STORM LAKE, Iowa (AP) -- Police in northwest Iowa captured a man who walked away from a minimum-security facility in South Dakota more than a year ago after receiving a tip that he might be passing through the area.
• Police in Storm Lake say David Lee, 54, originally from Minneapolis, was captured Friday. The officers were tipped off by law enforcement in nearby Cherokee that Lee might be traveling by car through the area.
• A car matching the description of Lee's was found parked near a Storm Lake apartment building. Police determined it was listed as stolen from a dealership in Hermantown, Minn.
• Police say Lee was in the building and fled when he realized officers were in the area looking for him. Police chased him by foot and he was eventually found hiding under a mattress in a garage nearby.
• Lee is now under Cherokee custody at the county jail, pending extradition to South Dakota. He faces multiple charges, including felony possession of stolen property and misdemeanor interference with official acts. Court records do not list an attorney. He also faces charges on suspicion of money laundering in a separate case.
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