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Saskatoon man charged with child luring involving American youth

A lengthy joint investigation by the Saskatchewan ICE unit and Homeland Security ends in charges against a Saskatoon man. Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press/File

A Saskatoon man is facing a child luring charge following a joint investigation by the Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit and Homeland Security in the United States.

The investigation was launched by Homeland Security in March 2017 after they received a report a youth in Phoenix, Ariz., had been communicating online with a man believed to be from Canada.

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ICE members became involved and following a lengthy investigation arrested Kyle John Van Ham, 31, at a Saskatoon home on April 26.

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Van Ham is charged with luring a child and making sexual explicit material available to a child.

He appeared in Saskatoon provincial court on April 27 and was released on a number of conditions. He is due back in court on May 10.

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