An Isanti County man has been sentenced to prison followed by supervised release for producing child pornography.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, 39-year-old Russell Anderson-Baldwin used Instagram, Snapchat, and other online messaging apps to communicate with a minor victim, coercing the minor into creating sexually explicit videos between December 2019 and August 2020.
Russell was arrested with 286 explicit videos of the victims as well as 140 other videos and pictures of other minor victims.
Anderson-Baldwin was convicted on one count of producing child pornography and was sentenced to 288 months in prison followed by 25 years of supervised release and will be required to register as sex offender.
