Osceola man charged for posting women on porn sites

An Osceola man has been earning money by posting explicit content of women on pornographic websites without their consent.

On May 26, the Osceola Police Department arrested Jesse Woltz, 45, of Osceola, on a Clarke County warrant for six counts of harassment, first degree and ongoing criminal conduct - unlawful activity. He was additionally charged with two counts of dominion/control of a firearm by a domestic abuse offender; possession of a controlled substance - first offense; possession of a controlled substance - marijuana, first offense; failure to affix drug tax stamp and three counts possession of drug paraphernalia.

According to Clarke County Sheriff’s reports, on Jan. 21, a victim contacted the sheriff’s office to report Woltz had posted a sexually explicit video of her online without her knowledge or consent. Deputies found the video on a pornographic site, uploaded on Aug. 16, 2023, by username “jw*****.″

A search warrant was executed for the website, but the video had been removed as of Jan. 30. A subpoena revealed the user information of the login email address to be Jesse Woltz from Iowa.

On May 2, a second victim reached out to the sheriff’s office. Seventeen photos of this victim were uploaded to the same site by the same user. On a separate site, a folder of images of this victim had more than 40,000 views.

On May 5, a third victim contacted Clarke County. The search warrant from the original site showed the victim’s name had been used 67 times, but nothing was still uploaded. A separate pornographic site revealed username “jw*****″ had an album with the victim’s name as the title and 478 images of the victim.

A search warrant for that website showed the email address to be the one registered to Woltz and confirmed the photos and videos were still posted as of May 14. A search revealed content creators on this website earn money, with top-tier performers earning as much as $1,500 while newcomers may earn as low as $300.

On May 26, the Osceola Police Department conducted a search warrant at Woltz’s residence located at 2013 Highway 69 in Osecola. In the garage, officers discovered a vehicle with a shotgun in plain view in the back seat. As a convicted domestic abuse offender, Woltz is prohibited from owning firearms.

Officers obtained an additional search warrant for the vehicle. In addition to the shotgun, officers located a bag containing a Sig P238 handgun, two loaded magazines and five jars containing controlled substances. Four of the five jars were labeled “30G.” Two of the jars contained a green leafy substance consistent with marijuana. The other three contained mushrooms believed to be psilocybin or psychedelic mushrooms. These substances are being sent to the Iowa DCI lab for processing.

The discovery of three pipes used to smoke marijuana resulted in three simple misdemeanors for possession of drug paraphernalia.

Woltz was transported to the Clarke County Jail where he was released from after posting cash or surety bonds of $15,000 for the search warrant charges and $37,000 for the harassment charges.

Woltz waived his right to a preliminary hearing that had been set for June 3.

His pretrial conference on the paraphernalia charges is scheduled for 9:30 a.m., Sept. 2 at the Clarke County Courthouse. He entered a plea of not guilty on June 3.