By Tim Ruzek

Post-Bulletin, Austin MN 

An Austin man found guilty in July of possessing child pornography is facing four months in jail.

Mower District Judge Fred Wellmann, however, delayed the jail term Oct. 23 for 29-year-old Ryan Keith Pickar, pending the notice of appeal on his convictions, court records show.

Wellmann presided over a one-day bench trial June 15 and filed his order a month later.

Pickar was sentenced for eight felony counts of possessing pornographic work involving minors. The judge stayed a $3,000 fine and the imposition of a potential prison term for Pickar for up to five years of supervised probation, court documents show.

Wellmann ordered Pickar to complete sex-offender treatment, comply with predatory offender registration and have no contact with minors except his biological children, records show.

Pickar, who was given credit for two days in jail, can't use or access the Internet unless approved by his probation agent. Pickar is not allowed to use or have pornographic/sexually explicit materials.

According to court documents, Pickar rented a laptop computer in 2006 from business and returned the computer Feb. 7, 2007, to the store's Austin location. The store manager called police after finding videos and pictures he believed to be child pornography while doing a routine check of Pickar's computer.

Pickar told police in late 2007 he recently applied for police officer jobs in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Madison, Wis., according to Suhler. Pickar was a law-enforcement student and member of the Austin/Mower County Law Enforcement Reserve, a volunteer unit.

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