SLC man arrested, charged with distributing large amounts of child sexual abuse material online

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4) — A Salt Lake City man has been arrested and charged after an FBI investigation revealed he was distributing large amounts of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online.

Tyler Kenneth Kofoed, 39, has been charged with 10 counts of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, a first-degree felony.

According to court documents, on July 17, 2025, the FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force (CEHTTF) began investigating an online user who was allegedly distributing CSAM online. An FBI agent went undercover and made contact with the account.

Throughout the conversation, the online user began “sending links to numerous images of CSAM” to the undercover agent. Around 80 different files containing CSAM were shared, and documents say that 49 of those files depicted very young children.

In the arrest statement, an officer states that while Kofoed distributed 80 images of CSAM, “information from the hosting platform suggested that Tyler [Kofoed] is likely in possession of thousands of files of CSAM.”

FBI agents, alongside members of the task force from the West Valley Police Department, were able to determine that the online user was likely Kofoed and connected the account to his home address in Salt Lake City. On Aug. 13, 2025, the CEHTTF conducted a search warrant on Kofoed’s residence.

All of Kofoed’s electronic devices were seized, and he was taken into custody and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail. He is being held without bail.