ME Computer Crimes Unit Search Homes Eddington and Hancock

Members of the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit executed two warrants on Tuesday, in Penobscot and Hancock Counties. As a result, one man was arrested and charged with sex crimes.

Shannon Moss, with the Maine Department of Public Safety, says the first search warrant was for a home at 145 Rooks Road in Eddington. State Troopers showed up at 7 AM, and after investigating, arrested a man from out of state.

"Taken into custody was 42-year-old Norman Dean Fannin on an extraditable arrest warrant out of Oregon for Class B felony sexual abuse – Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse. A search of Fannin’s residence was also conducted relating to an ongoing investigation by the Maine State Police for Disseminating Sexually Explicit Material. He is being held at the Penobscot County Jail pending extradition proceedings."

The second search warrant was put into place around noon on Tuesday, in Hancock. Moss says investigators with the Computer Crimes unit have been looking into activity going on at 1481 Route 1 in Hancock for quite a while for an "ongoing investigation into Possession of Sexually Explicit Material.

"47-year-old Peter Dysart was home at the time of the warrant and has been cooperative with the investigation."

Moss says the Maine District Attorney's Office will be handling this case.

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