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Campbell porn suspect caught in Wyoming, a year after skipping his trial

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David Hansen (right) appears in La Crosse County court with attorney Thomas Huh on Wednesday

A fugitive from French Island who skipped out on a pornography trial a year ago is back in the La Crosse jail, after being found in Wyoming. 

He’s David Edwin Hansen of the town of Campbell, who turned up two weeks ago at a Gillette, Wyoming motel. 

Hansen was 72 years old when La Crosse County charged him in 2017 with 10 counts of keeping child porn on a home computer. 

The case was supposed to go to trial last April, but Hansen missed a pre-trial hearing, and an arrest warrant was issued. 

At the time of his original arrest, a $10,000 cash bond was ordered for Hansen, but it was later reduced to a signature bond. 

Judge Todd Bjerke has set Hansen’s new bond at $100,000 cash, and orders him not to contact children, and not to use computers.

A native of Prairie du Chien, Brad graduated from UW - La Crosse and has worked in radio news for more than 30 years, mostly in the La Crosse area. He regularly covers local courts and city and county government. Brad produces the features "Yesterday in La Crosse" and "What's Buried on Brad's Desk." He also writes the website "Triviazoids," which finds odd connections between events that happen on a certain date, and he writes and performs with the local comedy group Heart of La Crosse. Brad been featured on several national TV programs because of his memory skills.

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