PLANFIELD, Ind. — Investigators believe a Plainfield man tried to delete a cache of child sexual abuse material from his computer after a cybertip led state police to his door.

According to court documents, Indiana State Police began investigating Jonathan Cogswell, 59, in September 2023. A cybertip linked to images of suspected child sexual abuse material eventually led investigators to Cogswell's home on Gary Drive in Plainfield.

State police ended up searching Cogwell's home in early October 2023. They recovered 20 devices from the home, but it took nearly a year to sift through all the devices in search of evidence of wrongdoing.

According to state police, 19 of the 20 devices were clean but a computer found in a backroom, which Cogswell allegedly frequently used, had traces of nude

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