The investigation into Alexander’s city treasurer for child pornography began six months ago. It began to ramp up after detectives served a search warrant at 65-year-old Ken Miller’s home.
An arrest report accuses Miller of downloading and storing child pornography. State police arrested Miller on Thursday.
While serving a search warrant at Miller’s home in February, detectives seized three phones, a thumb drive, a laptop and 11 hard drives.
The report states Miller did not confess but admitted to seeing child porn on a file-sharing network.
After examining the evidence, authorities say they found 19 videos with sexual content involving children under the age of 18. Some of them appeared to be 3 or 4 years old, according to the report.
Alexander’s mayor, Paul Mitchell, declined to speak about the incident on Friday but released a prepared statement, which reads in part:
“Ken Miller has been on medical leave since last October. He has not been active in the city since that time….Miller had presented his resignation several weeks ago.”
An elected official who was once trusted with the city’s finances now faces the possibility of paying his own debt to society.
Everyone we spoke to at city hall said they were shocked but declined to speak on camera.
Miller remains in the Saline County jail.
