{"id":666039,"date":"2026-05-13T05:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/666039\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T05:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:53:10","slug":"tennessee-fugitive-35-wanted-for-child-sex-abuse-charges-arrested-in-winnipeg-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/666039\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee fugitive, 35, wanted for child sex abuse charges arrested in Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An American fugitive wanted for child sex abuse-related charges in Tennessee was arrested far from home during a traffic stop in Winnipeg last week.<\/p>\n

Logan Woodard Kelley, 35, was charged criminally and indicted by a grand jury in Robertson County, north of Nashville, but failed to appear in court last month while on pre-trial release, Tennessee police said. That triggered an international search, Det. Joseph Chelini of the Greenbrier Police Department said in a phone interview Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Kelley was indicted on 14 counts of aggravated statutory rape last August in connection to a case involving a 13-year-old girl, Chelini told CBC News.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Kelley was charged with 15 counts of soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, which involves explicit images, and 10 counts of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, which involves creating and distributing child pornography, Chelini said.<\/p>\n

It’s alleged Kelley does not have a passport and entered Canada illegally, possibly through a farm or field \u2014 while potentially armed with multiple handguns and rifles \u2014 a few days before his court date in Robertson County on April 24. An arrest warrant was issued after he failed to show up in court, Chelini said.<\/p>\n

Chelini says the department worked with federal law-enforcement agencies \u2014 including the United States Marshals Service, which leads national fugitive investigations \u2014 to track Kelley.<\/p>\n

Chelini said his department learned Kelley was in Winnipeg by early May but police hadn’t completed all the formal and “time-consuming” paperwork and processes of alerting Winnipeg police by the time officers arrested him.<\/p>\n

Winnipeg police officers saw a speeding truck in the Exchange District at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday and pulled it over near Higgins Avenue and McArthur Street, a Tuesday news release said. <\/p>\n

\"AnOfficers saw a speeding truck in the Exchange District on Thursday and pulled it over at this intersection in the Point Douglas area. (Jeff Stapleton\/CBC)<\/p>\n

The officers identified the driver and learned about the outstanding arrest warrant, Winnipeg Police Service spokesperson Const. Pat Saydak said in an interview. <\/p>\n

The man was arrested and turned over to the Canada Border Services Agency, where he’ll stay until he can be transferred to the U.S., Saydak said. <\/p>\n

Greenbrier police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were also notified, he said.<\/p>\n

Saydak could not confirm the man was Kelley.<\/p>\n

Chelini commended the Winnipeg officers for their diligence in identifying the man.<\/p>\n

“It couldn’t have gone any smoother, especially with the risk that we believed that he was armed and dangerous,” Chelini said.<\/p>\n

“It was a tremendous fear that he would be encountered, but they wouldn’t have the means to take any action against him, because … they wouldn’t have known beyond him being in the country illegally.”<\/p>\n

Kelley is believed to have disposed of guns before encountering officers in Winnipeg and wasn’t armed when they took him into custody, Chelini said.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear why Kelley fled to Winnipeg as he doesn’t have family ties in the city, Chelini said, adding he suspects “it was just the path of least resistance.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-666039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}