MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 02/25/2014
Reports released Tuesday by St. Paul police who investigated a priest for possible child pornography possession do not show that computer disks turned over by a Hugo man were examined.
Police investigated Rev. Jonathan Shelley, 52, of Minneapolis last year after a former employee of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis made a report to the Ramsey County attorney’s office.
In late September, police who reviewed three disks they had obtained from the archdiocese closed the case, saying there was no evidence of child porn.
On Oct. 5, they got a call from Joe Ternus of Hugo that led them to reopen the investigation.
Nine years earlier, Ternus had come into possession of Shelley’s computer because it was left at a Mahtomedi house that Ternus’ family used to own and where Shelley had lived.
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