In March 2025, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension received a CyberTip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (“NCMEC”). The CyberTip reported that in January 2025, an individual had uploaded five files containing Child Sexual Abuse Material (“CSAM”) to Snapchat. An investigator reviewed the CSAM mentioned in the CyberTip and confirmed that the four of the five videos showed juvenile females exposing their breasts, vaginas, or buttocks. Through investigation, law enforcement identified ERWIN ALEJANDRO ROSALES, born on [DOB REDACTED], defendant herein, as the accountholder for the Snapchat account.
Defendant’s phone number was used as the registered number for the Snapchat account. IP address information returned to a home at [ADDRESS REDACTED], Champlin, Hennepin County, Minnesota, which Defendant was associated with. The email associated with the Snapchat account had a subscriber named “Alejandro Rosales.” On December 9, 2025, officers executed a search warrant for the Champlin address and located Defendant. In his bedroom, officers found a silver iPhone, a white iPhone, a black Samsung phone, a flash drive, and a micro-SD card.
In a Miranda statement, Defendant claimed that while living in Texas in November 2024, he clicked a Facebook link that took him to another page with many links that contained videos and images of adolescents. Defendant admitted that he screen recorded different videos on the links. Defendant also confirmed that he was the Snapchat user for the account referenced in the CyberTip. When asked how the CSAM got onto his Snapchat account, Defendant claimed that he had transferred images and videos from an iPhone to a Samsung phone.
Defendant acknowledged that there might be images or video that still existed on his phone. On the black Samsung phone, forensic examination revealed the following files containing CSAM: 1. Source Path: RFCT5037ACV_files_full.zip/data/media/0/DCIM/XoXo/Snapchat-819052206.mp4 a. Description: An image of a young juvenile female who is fully naked exposing her breasts and genitals. 2. Source Path: RFCT5037ACV_files_full.zip/data/media/0/DCIM/XoXoVID_20240828_ 081952_676.mp4 a. Description: A video of an apparent young female teenager with her breasts and vagina fully exposed.
The teenager rubs her vagina. On the silver iPhone, forensic examination revealed an image of Defendant in the phone’s media section. The forensic examination also revealed the following files containing CSAM in the digital camera media area of the phone: 1. Source Path: 00008150-001611D83632401C_files_fullzip/private/var/mobile/Media/ PhotoData/UBF/resources/derivatives/cvt/0/079B53ED-3D86-416B-8E0E-E3BD4BCB4 163/079B53ED- 3D86-416B-8E0E-E3BD4BCB4163_cvt_t0006.jpeg a. Description: An image of an apparent female teenager only wearing underwear that are hiked up against her exposed vagina. 2. Source Path: 00008150-001611D83632401C_files_fullzip/private/var/mobile/Media/ 2 ••-CR-••-•••• Filed in District Court State of Minnesota 1/21/2026 PhotoData/UBF/resources/derivatives/cvt/0/079B53ED-3D86-416B-8E0E-E3BD4BCB4 163/079B53ED- 3D86-416B-8E0E-E3BD4BCB4163_cvt_t0000.jpeg a. Description: Apparent female teenager depicted in two images.
