Minden man faces felony in bondage site hook-up with 16-year-old

A 59-year-old Minden man was ordered Friday to stay away from a 16-year-old Lake Tahoe girl he met on a bondage web site.

David Tillotson was arrested on Tuesday evening after he told a Douglas County investigator that he’d proposed to the girl.

According to the investigation report, Tillotson would pick the girl up near her home and bring her to Douglas where he took photos of her tied up. The girl said she’d told Tillotson she was 18 and that the relationship was consensual.

Both told investigators that Tillotson didn’t know her true age until they were stopped on July 27 by the Nevada Highway Patrol, and she identified herself. On Aug. 3 he told an investigator that he planned to keep seeing the girl.

On Friday, Tillotson was released on his own recognizance with a GPS device and ordered to give up any electronic devices he had.

• A fourth man was extradited to Douglas County in connection with a forgery ring that may have cashed more than $60,000 in fake checks between two states.

Josue Abrica Magallon was transported to Douglas County on Friday on a warrant charging him with burglary and uttering a forged instrument.

Magallon allegedly passed $5,000 in payroll checks from the California Department of Transportation and a private company at the Topaz Lodge.

The case was uncovered in Douglas County when deputies responded to a report that someone was passing fraudulent checks at the Lodge in January 2020.

Jonathan Lee Schofield and Henry Jesse Martinez were arrested Jan. 19. Schofield died before he could be sentenced in May 2020. Martinez was convicted of counterfeiting and sentenced to 1-4 years. According to the Nevada Department of Corrections Martinez, 60, was paroled June 15, 2020. He had been given credit for five months he served in jail pending his sentencing.