Valley Springs, CA…Yesterday, 9-25-17 at about 9:00am, Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office Detectives assisted agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the service of an arrest warrant on Nicholas Watkins, age 29, of Valley Springs. Watkins was taken into custody at a business in Mountain Ranch without incident and turned over to FBI agents.

Watkins was transported to the Fresno County Jail where he was booked on allegations for violating 18 US Code Section 2252(a)(2) – Knowing receipt and/or distribution of any visual depiction of any minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct that has been transmitted in interstate or foreign commerce or by use of any mean or facility of interstate or foreign commerce and 18 US Code Section 2252 (a)(4)(B) – Knowing possession of any matter(s) that contain any visual depiction of any minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct that has been transmitted in interstate or foreign commerce or through any mean or facility of interstate or foreign commerce.

No other information is available at this time. Any inquiries as to the investigation that led to this arrest can be directed to the FBI Press Office (916) 746-8106