Police find guns, Nazi paraphernalia in Wickenburg child exploitation raid

WICKENBURG, AZ (AZFamily) — Officers searching the Wickenburg home of a motorcycle club member for child sex abuse material found Nazi paraphernalia and multiple guns, including a machine gun that was being built, court documents released Thursday said.

The investigation into Thomas Schumacher, 46, a Marine veteran, started in June when the Peoria Police Department received multiple cyber tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about Schumacher uploading videos of children being sexually exploited to two cloud storage accounts, court paperwork said.

Investigators said Schumacher was connected to the IP address, which was traced to a Peoria home. Police said he saved the home as a work-related location.”

About 4:50 a.m. Tuesday, Peoria police’s Special Assignments Unit searched Schumacher’s home on Mohave Street near Jefferson Street…

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