LOGAN — A 50-year-old Logan man has confessed to downloading hundreds of images of child pornography. Brady Lynn Thurston was arrested in October 2024 after officers served a warrant to his home.
According to court records, Thurston appeared Aug. 4 in Logan’s 1st District Court. He accepted a plea deal, pleading guilty to 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony. 10 additional counts were dismissed as part of the agreement.
According to prosecutors, Logan City Police officers received a cyber-tip in September 2024 from a cloud-based storage provider for Verizon wireless. They reported a user had uploaded files to their servers containing depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
The company provided officers with 79 files believed to be child sexual abuse material. Officers reviewed the material and found all but one was child pornography.
Police were able to determine Thurston was the owner of the user account by tracking his phone number and IP address, according to court documents.
Officers were able to secure a warrant to obtain the rest of the material allegedly saved to the account. They received multiple folders from the company, with an additional several hundred images of child sexual abuse material.
The images depicted children ranging from approximately 4 to 16-years-old. The kids were “in various states of undress and in various forms of sexual positions,” police wrote in the probable cause statement.
Thurston is currently out of jail on pretrial supervision. He is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 17, and could face more than 15 years in prison.