BANGOR, Maine — The arraignment of recent Maine Sports Hall of Fame inductee and local disc jockey Dana Wilson on a child pornography charge was continued Wednesday at the the Penobscot Judicial Center until Aug. 8.
Wilson, 61, of Brewer did not appear in court but District Court Judge Bruce Jordan set the defendant’s bail at $1,000 unsecured and ordered that he have no unsupervised contact with minors under the age of 16.
Jordan said the arraignment was continued because Michael Roberts, deputy district attorney for Penobscot County, who is handling the case, is on vacation.
Wilson’s attorney, Jeffrey Silverstein of Bangor, said after the brief bail hearing that it was too early to tell whether his client would go to trial since he had not seen the indictment or received discovery from the district attorney’s office.
“This has been a shock to him and to all the people who know him,” Silverstein said. “He was been very involved in the community and is well known for his work.”
Wilson was indicted June 27 by the Penobscot County grand jury on a charge of possession of sexually explicit material, a Class C crime.
The investigation into Wilson began in February 2011, Brewer police Detective Sgt. Jay Munson said the day Wilson was indicted.
“We found no evidence of any local children or what appears to be local children [on Wilson’s computer],” Munson said.
Wilson has a disc jockey business and has provided music for dances sponsored by Brewer Parks and Recreation and area schools for many years, Munson said.
Silverstein said Wednesday that investigators had looked through “hundreds of videos and photos on the computer and found nothing related to anyone local or an indication he was involved in the production of anything.”
Ken Hanscom, director of Brewer Parks and Recreation, said last month that Wilson has provided music for the last 20 years for the annual father-daughter dance and for the last five years for the street dance that is part of the city’s Brewer Days celebration in September.
The videos found on Wilson’s computer showed adult men having sex with girls under the age of 12, according to Michael Roberts, deputy district attorney for Penobscot County. Monitoring of child pornography sites by law enforcement officials outside of Maine led to an Internet address owned by Wilson, the prosecutor said last month.
Wilson was inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame for his basketball feats at Bangor’s Husson College, where he graduated in 1974. The hall of fame says Wilson averaged nearly 35 points per game his senior year, best among all NCAA Division III schools that year.
If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000. He also would be required to register as a sex offender for 10 years and could be prevented from spending time with minors as a DJ.
I wonder, did anyone else have access to this computer.. ???? or is Dana the only one that has ever used it .. ever…
Thats it, someone snuck in and loaded hundreds of child porn videos on his computer. You figured it out
If you don’t think the question Paul brings up will not come up at trial you are sadly mistaken.
The article is deceiving. It was not “hundreds” of child porn images and videos on his computer. He has hundreds of other images and videos on his computer that they went through. What was found was only a couple videos – sick yes but you do not know the facts surrounding this case. How do you know that someone did not put that on his computer to cause issues. Out of all his computers, why just that one computer and only a couple videos? Why would he not have hundreds of them if that is the type of man he is? Also, why would he wait until the age of 61 to start being “sick”? It was not websites that were visited, it was videos by the way.
“Silverstein said Wednesday that investigators had looked through “hundreds of videos and photos on the computer and found nothing related to anyone local or an indication he was involved in the production of anything” it doesnt say only a couple were found just that no evidence of local children or he produced them.
Only a couple were found.
I agree with what you are saying, just remember he posts hundreds of videos and photos on my fork’s facebook page of bands and singers. Probably went through every one of those (which is a lot).
All good questions but why was he being investigated? Its not like they tripped over these photo’s and video’s, they must have had a reason to suspect him. They didn’t just show up and use his computer and suddenly say, omigosh, look at those pics and videos.
Someone called the authorities to inform them of what was on the computer.
Oh, and it was not photos and videos – it was videos.
I needed that chuckle too.
Thank goodness they are watching these sites and nabbing those that log on to them! I don’t care who it is, they should be held responsible even if they never touched a minor inappropriately – they still were looking at those sites where adults were engaging sexually with minors. What is wrong with people?
“The videos found on Wilson’s computer showed adult men having sex with girls under the age of 12, according to Michael Roberts, deputy district attorney for Penobscot County.”
I pretty much became instantly sick to my stomach after reading that sentence
Yes nauseating would definitely define my viceral reaction to the article. I don’t care if he didn’t touch anyone because without sicko, perverted and warped people who look at and download this disgusting material there would be no one profiting.
gee 1,000 unsecured how nice of the judge to be so kind.
so basically, nugent’s drummer is a bigger criminal than an accused molester,, that must of been one heck of a traffic cone..
molester? Where did it say he molested anyone?
oh sorry,, your right,, accused “wannabe” molester
In my humble opinion, anyone who watches t his type of garbage is capable of anything.
Since I have known Dana for many years, I believe reserving judgment is the proper thing to do until ” The Evidence” is produced and indeed if anyone else had regular access to this computer as it may have been, the family computer. Let us all wait and see……Dana certainly never had a problem with the ladies..
heh heh,, i wonder why. it appears they were totally safe..
Lol I needed tha chuckle.
“Dana certainly never had a problem with the ladies..”Thats the first thing out of a rapest mouth too. Really bad choice of words to defend someone lol. If it was a family pc somebody in his house has a serious problem.
then he should sue the paper…
uncle jerry sandusky woulod be proud
Give him max in court and maybe it will stop people from doing this kind of sickness. He went from a icon to a very sick in the head person.
Wow, good thing there was no one local on there.
(perhaps they might be “Local” somewhere else?)
So all the father/daughter dances I attended with my daughter, he was the DJ. I wonder if he was the one that also wondered around with the video camera. If it was him he didn’t film anything terrible as they always played the video back at the end for everyone to see, still a bit creepy to think about if it was him filming.
I also wonder if he was the DJ at any of the school dances my daughter attended. When she gets home from band camp I’ll have to find out. Girls where a lot less at the school dances than the father/daughter dance.
This is going to freak my daughter out when I tell her about this.
Kevin, it would not have been him with the video cameras.
Cool, but still creepy.
Yes it is very creepy. There are three people that run the cameras for school dances, and to be honest with you i think it should be a teacher but that never happens
5 years in Prison , substantial fine, therapy and register as an offender for life sounds about right.