A Des Moines man who faced sixteen charges from an online child exploitation investigation by the Newton Police Department is scheduled to be sentenced May 11th. That sentencing date for 44-year-old Matthew Mark Powell has been set by District Court Judge Nicholas Bailey after a plea agreement. Court records show Powell will be sentenced on a class B felony sexual exploitation of a minor charge, a class D felony grooming charge, and an aggravated misdemeanor offense of phone dissemination of obscene material to a minor, first offense.
According to Newton Police, Powell was engaged in online communication of a sexual nature with a Newton Police Detective posing as a minor. Captain Chris Wing with the Newton Police Department says the correspondence took place for…..