Former Senate Aide Arrested For Child Porn Believed To Have Committed Suicide

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A former aide to Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee has been found dead and is believed to have committed suicide. Jesse Ryan Loskarn was arrested last month after a raid on his home by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

As The New Civil Rights Movement had reported, Loskarn reportedly had “hundreds” of videos of both young girls and young boys on an external hard drive, which the government contended he was trying to hide when authorities used a battering ram to enter his Washington, D.C. home.

“At approximately 12pm yesterday, Carroll County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a private residence in the 6900 block of Kenmar Lane for a report of an unconscious male, believed to be deceased,” said a statement from Colonel Phil Kasten of the Carroll County Sheriff’s office, according to Politico. “Family members reported finding 35 year old Jesse Ryan Loskarn unresponsive in his basement where he’d been residing with family since this past December. The preliminary investigation indicates that Loskarn may have taken his own life, and his body has since been transported to the State Medical Examiner’s Office for Autopsy.”

Politico adds that “Loskarn, who was awaiting the outcome of grand jury proceedings in his case, had been staying with his parents since being released on his own recognizance.”

He was scheduled to next appear in federal court on Feb. 10. Loskarn had been ordered not to use the Internet and was required to wear an electronic ankle bracelet.

In a brief statement, Alexander said: “For everyone involved, this is a sad and tragic story from beginning to end.”

Loskarn had been named to Roll Call’s Fabulous 50 list in 2011. Before running Senator Alexander’s office, Loskarn was a leader of the Republican Conference, and described as “one of the Senate GOP’s top strategists and aides,” and “a fixture in the House and Senate for most of the past decade,” by Roll Call in 2011:

Including working at the Republican Conference under Alexander and former Chairman Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Loskarn also did stints in the House working for Reps. Wally Herger (R-Calif.) and Marsha Blackburn(R-Tenn.), as well as the House Rules Committee.

 

Screenshot via NBC Washington