Tuscumbia firefighter charged with child sex crimes

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A volunteer firefighter for the Tuscumbia Fire Department has been charged with two child sex crimes.

Izak Lachance, 25, of Eldon, was charged on Wednesday in Morgan County with second-degree child sex trafficking and child enticement. He is being held at the Morgan County Jail on a $250,000 bond. A court date has not been scheduled.

The probable cause statement says the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office on Feb. 23 received a call about Lachance giving a sex toy and pornographic images to a minor.

The youth spoke with law enforcement the next day and described instances where Lachance had sent them pornographic content through the social media application SnapChat. The minor also described an instance where Lachance forcefully gave them a sex toy, the statement says.

They also described being touched by Lachance and claimed he was known to “have inappropriate relationships with other juvenile females in the past,” court documents say. Lachance also allegedly offered to pay the youth $100 a week for sexual images and at one point gave the youth $20 to coax them to send him an image, the statement says.

Police used Lachance’s Snapchat data to determine he went to a Walmart to buy a sex toy that he gave the youth, the statement says. Law enforcement found video of him at the Walmart picking out the sex toy, the statement says.

Lachance allegedly admitted giving the youth a sex toy but could not confirm if he paid them money or demanded sexual photographs, court documents say.