When Jeswin and his mother returned to their Illinois home just after five in the morning they found Harvard Police waiting They had a warrant and Mary had no idea what that search was about to reveal about her son Turn off the car Turn off the car Hey, little guy You just turn off the car Turn off the car He's in the back Okay So here's what's - here's what's going on, Mary - Oh is I have a search warrant for the residence So we're all gonna go inside and I'll explain everything in there - Okay? - Okay, okay Nobody's under arrest at this time I just have a search warrant - Okay, - So obviously is Mark inside and uh, or did Mark already leave? Mark? Your other son Oh, my son? - Yeah - Oh, he's, he's he's in the Philippines Okay, I got you And then obviously Tommy's inside? Tommy's in work - Okay, I got you, all right - Just left We'll go, we'll go ahead and we'll explain - everything on the inside - Okay, okay To Mary, this was all new but police had spent months following a disturbing digital trail that eventually led to her home Keep your hands Slowly walk out - Sure - Face the car We're gonna sit down at the at the at the table and - I'll explain everything - Oh, okay, okay Can I, uh, close this one or just - leave? - Well, is that there's nobody else inside - It's just these two? - No, just me Yep - All right, yep, all right - Uh, me and my son Gotcha, all right I can close this one? All right, and that's Jeswin? - Uh, Jeswin, yeah - Okay You got any weapons on you? Um, no All right We're gonna... - There's nobody else inside the house? - No All right, we're gonna go make sure... Bedrooms upstairs? Uh, yeah All right, tell you what - If you wanna just have a seat - Okay over here for me and I'll be right back with you, Mary Police! - Have a seat - Anybody in here? Make yourself known - Police! - Ma'am, take a seat I'll ask these two “you guys wanna clear?” Yep Police! Clear Yeah Garage clear Hit the secondaries, all the inside these rooms Uh, this one's completely clear Behind you Okay I'm gonna go left Police department! Clear in here Basement's clear All right Account, phone, and IP records had led investigators to the home Mary was learning why police were there but the search was only part of their plan Like I said, there's, uh... We have a search warrant for the house Oh And it's for any and all electronic items So cell phones Uh-huh computers PlayStations, all that kind of stuff any USB Uh-huh Do you have any idea why we're here? - Hmm - No I think you do Uh, what? So I've been working on an investigation Here's a copy of the search warrant I've been working on an investigation for about the past three months and it involves your phone number It involves files sent over Facebook So do you think you have a any idea why I'm here, Jeswin? What is this? I didn't know that Okay, so, so long, long, long of the short Facebook reported c**** p*** being sent from a phone number an IP address and everything that registers back to this address - Uh - Mm-hmm What's your, what's your what's your phone number? Mary finally knew why police were searching her home but they came with a second warrant and this one was for Jeswin Wanna tell me why your phone number's being used why the IP address here is being used? That's the biggest thing So long of the short is what I'll have you do is I'll have you take him into custody I have a 15-count complaint They're all Class X felonies So once, uh once I get done here what I will be doing is I'll be coming down and talking to you - Sure, sure - Okay? So that's why, that's why I'm here - I don't understand - I'll, I'll ex... I'll explain everything What we're gonna end up doing is we're gonna end up searching your house Mm-hmm I have the Attorney General's office coming here They're gonna have a van and they're gonna do on-site vetting of all electronics including your phone everybody's everybody's phone that's here I will be going through once I get my other bodies in here we'll be going through the house What I'll have you do is just stay here Mm-hmm and just sit down If you need something to drink or something like that or use the bathroom just let somebody know - Okay - and we'll, we'll facilitate that Okay? But for right now I can't let anybody else go - including... - What happened to the, um electronics? Yeah I... Wh... That, that's the reason why I have the Attorney General's office coming here - Oh, okay, okay - They have an on-site tech van that will vet everything including his cell phone - Okay - and any other things that we find in the house It is being seized on something, it is being seized for evidence Okay Okay? - All right, if you... - Can I call my my husband? - Um, and... - Well, right, right now I can't, I can't let you use - your cell phone - Okay Do you have your cell phone on you - right now? - Um... Right there on the table Okay Once, once I get done it'll be about 6:00, 6:30, and then once we go, I... What I will do is I will have them - go ahead and go through your - Mm-hmm phone first That way you can make your phone calls But until then, I can't The Attorney General's office will be here about 6:00, 6:30, okay? - 6:00, 6:30 - Yes Unless, do you have a landline - like a regular - We don't - cord... Oh, it's just all cell phones? - have a landline Okay All right, fair enough Yeah, if you wanna go ahead make sure you Mirandize him once you get down there and then I will be down sooner than later Thank you Uh, do you need anything right now? - Ricky - No Hey, buddy Come here Oh, there you go You got him? Yep Okay Ricky We'll just pull up here So as earlier described you are under arrest We're good We're good - So - We're gonna stay Yeah You need us for perimeter or anything? No, we should be good and I'll have the Woodstock guys - help me out with everything here - Okay - Unless... - If you need us, just give me a ring Yeah, and then obviously once Cohen gets here I'll have Cohen do everything, so if one of you wanna just stay here with... - You wanna stay here? Yeah - I can stay, yeah Okay Thank you Yeah, that way the dog doesn't bolt Thank you, guys Oh, no problem Jeswin had been taken away but the search inside Mary's home continued What officers found next would reveal a side of her son she had never seen I know Things got kicked up I figured - we'd take care of this ourselves - Hey, you have a - search warrant for his (unintelligible) - No but we took the phone off of him It was for all electronics - in the house, and - Now he's (unintelligible) so, that's why I wanted them back in the house His phone's on the charger - in Dixon's car - Okay - So - Perfect So do you have a a arrest warrant for him as well? Yes, I do I just took, I just, just because I'm just like "Let's get him out of the house We have a cell phone" So Yeah - So - What charges you got on him? - Just for possession or - Uh... Yeah, it's 15 Class Xs Oh, then it is dissemination Yes - Oh, okay - Cuz he was sending it out He got fi... - They gave you 15? - They, they gave... They told, they told me "Go pick, pick the the, uh, the most egregious 10 to 15" So I, I typed up 15 yesterday got them signed by Lamb, and got my search warrant, so yeah, sorry, we had... I just had to kick it up and I'm like, "We can..." No, no - There's just the two - No people in the house so I got Mary in there She's chilling with one of our officers You calling custody for him? Yeah, I believe Um, do you have a charger on your desk? Yeah, I have a charger on my desk Okay, I'll run that in - Yeah - get his - charger - Yeah, and then just put it in one of the Faraday bags and stuff it in there In a Faraday bag, yeah Actually, just keep it in this one because the AG's coming o... - Do you need a Faraday bag? - coming... - Oh - If you got... Just stay here with it Yeah, just, yeah just cuz the AG - is just coming out - He doesn’t have a smartwatch on does he or anything like that? No, he does not Okay So you guys just if wanna... - I've got a... - Yeah, I can help you with the search or... She is, she is she is clueless Where is old man Beardsley? He is at work and he is not here Thought he was supposed to be here He was but things change The economy's bad, overtime Yeah, exactly He's old too He's 67 Yeah Still working The, uh... Yeah, I mean if you guys wanna help out with the search we can do it that way cuz I'm gonna have one main person and... she is 100% clueless Okay Just like "I have no clue what's going on I don't even know what any of this means" So - how... - Are they married? Yes She got the ICAC guys out here? - Then I will... - They'll be here at 6:00 - 6:30 - Okay - The... - I wouldn't worry about notifying him then No No, I told her, unfortunately she can't u... She can't, she can't she can't, uh... She knows she can't use her phone until it's been vetted I'm like "I will facilitate it" But yeah, might as well go start going through the house then Um, let me do photographs Yeah And then, uh go for it So you guys ready to just tear up a house? Sure All right, looks like there's a there's a bunch of electronics in a couple of the bedrooms The laptops upstairs in one of the bedroom another one in another room - bunch of other stuff - So they're powered on? Right now, I have not checked Okay So we'll leave the laptops until the ICAC guys can - Yeah - check them cuz if they're powered up - and they get powered down - Yeah they could go into encryption and we don't wanna f*** with that Yeah So That works, at least we'll, uh... Figure out if nothing else tear up the house and holler and I'll come come, uh, take additional, uh - Are there still - photographs people in the house? There's just the one It's the old lady She's chilling with, uh chilling with Mendlik She knows that she's not allowed to use her phone, so she's chilling there Gotcha Told her we'll, we'll get her phone vetted first and then she can make her phone calls - So - Okay AG's office should be here 6:00, 6:30 they said I appreciate you guys coming out - I do, I owe you - Yeah, I mean, if you wanna hand scroll her phone you could probably get away with that just to get it back to her, but I mean, if she, she probably doesn't need it cuz she's an old lady anyways Yeah, she's seems like she's content, uh talking chilling with Mendlik, so - Wha'ts the house like? - It's clean, it's - It's a... - Plas... Plastic on any of the furniture? No You're gonna come out speaking, uh, Filipino with, uh, a couple of recipes Gaming computer in the suspect's room? Yeah, so there's Well, there's a small there's a small computer there smaller laptop Know about the old man? About the old man? Oh, he's not here, so Oh, I didn't know if - No, no, he's... - Not coming from work or anything? No, he's not, uh He's not my main concern Okay Obviously, so Did he kind of be like, "Yeah"? No, he said, he's just like... I've just told him why we're here told me his phone number His phone number is the phone number that's connected with everything, so Okay And then I just, so I'm just like He's just like "Nope, I don't know anything here what anything why you would be here" So that's when I just told Anthony to take him into custody and I'll come talk with him after we're done Do you have, like a room assignment for us or do you Let's go, let's go upstairs first cuz that's where I identified most of the stuff - Yeah, it's, uh - Let’s do it now Going inside Yeah, it's in the center console If there's something plugged in just pull it out and plug that one in Yep, everything is everything is secure We'll just go do four rooms There's four rooms up top Just so you know, Sam - Oh - I'm in heaven Yeah, uh, that's electronics and a USB It's plugged in What was that? So like, like that it's plugged in Yep This is their room? Yeah, this is their room And you don't want me moving stuff - or you want... - If you go go through it like any normal search warrant Okay Check it I mean, we, we're not gonna destroy their house - No, it’s just like - cuz they've been decent electronics like that Like, um - Yeah, we'll just, we'll just... - I'll leave that cuz it’s plugged in Yeah If I find a phone, I'm gonna - grab it - Okay Yeah, if you find a phone someplace, let me know and I'll photograph it Yeah, and all this stuff was laid out, so It was laid out like this? Yep Really? Yep Weird Yeah, everything's been photographed The only thing I have not photographed is, like the interior of drawers Okay But I've never had an issue where as you guys open them up if you see something - Yeah, we got that - I'll come photograph it Yeah All right This is super weird Yeah, and, uh, this is, this is... I'm guessing this is his room because the other, the other son Mark, the older son is still in the Philippines Okay But Mark is not my main suspect It's Jeswin Gotcha - He's got his video camera - Who was... Who was in the, uh the car? That's Jeswin Okay And he works, he works at PetDine He has no he has no information on leads So mom goes and picks him up from PetDine at 5:00 AM brings her, brings him home Okay So yeah I appreciate it again, guys I owe you breakfast and a whole lot more That's gonna be the other son Okay And he's a... So she said that he's in the Philippines currently Okay Do you want a picture of indicia before I start digging? Yeah, sure I think that... If you find anything let me know, but I've got, I've got everything photographed and all their just Yeah All right Hi, you a little Shih Tzu, huh? Hi Yeah You know we're not bad people Mary had watched the police search her home and take her son away but she still didn't know how far the case would go What officers carried out would shape what happened next Hmm Not that we need it anymore - but just - No, just... proves this is his room Yeah I'll take a picture of all that stuff I even made sure I even made sure to put that in the search, like, you know video cameras, cuz I... Just in case, yeah Yeah, just because on, uh on one of his Facebook pa... pictures, there was a camera or it was that camera Looks like there's a tape in here Yeah We'll find out Are you taking the camera? - It's really frustrating that - Yeah Yeah, I'm taking the camera every time you do an ICAC case you get a different Attorney assigned to you - It's like I have to teach - I know somebody this all this stuff all over again Todd, did you wanna get a picture of this for him? Sure All this stuff (unintelligible) Do you want any do you want indicia for that particular room? No Social on a... Yeah, I mean, if there's nothing in there if you find something when you're going through let me know and I'll come and I'll, I'll grab Other than that I'm sure all the electron… Yeah, uh, he's got, he's got the cell phone on him which we have Obviously, it's airplane mode and all that, and So I don't I don't know if the AG's office is gonna be able to do anything with those Handycam tapes You may have to Yeah, just play them and watch them Yep So there's a bunch of cables in here that look like... We'll grab all the cables then It's gonna be the easiest way, and once all is said and done I'll go downstairs and grab their wireless router and all that That phone was on top of the cologne Okay Bedside table It's got a nice little, uh I believe this is a combination lock It's a password nonetheless Hmm We'll go through it Yeah, well just like I said we'll just throw, just throw everything on top of there and when I’m… Before we bag it I'm just gonna bag everything as one room and then I'll break it down just for the ease I said I think you guys have the best job Go through everybody's stuff and then leave You know, there's a suitcase behind there It may be empty but that's (unintelligible) a good spot to keep… That works Especially with everything laying out like this, I'm just Nope, it's empty But we'll check nonetheless I had a feeling this one is, uh a pretty clean room for anything that we're looking for This is what you wanted by electronics, right? There's always one in every place Well, there's three here - One, two... - Oh And then this one's gotta be the the good one Uh-huh That works It never fails There's always the one I'm gonna go let them know that the AG's office will be showing up That way they know when the big black van shows up There's gonna be a couple of guys from the AG's office showing up Um, they're gonna be have a big black transit van Okay So They're authorized Indicia to like… - uh... - I mean, unless he's got c*** Okay I ain't too worried about that s*** no more Couple p** pipes or something? Yeah Okay Kind of figured by the smell in here that we'd find Yeah Unless he's got, uh you know the mother load He's got a sweet - Jordan bobblehead - Nice No, there's not much going on in here I mean, this room's relatively sterile - Yeah, I mean... - Which is nice but then it kind of makes you worry you're gonna overlook something Well, he did, well, this guy, he's the... His mom said he's in the Philippines He's been gone in the Philippines for a while Oh So Like months? Yeah Okay, this, the, this ki... this kid the Jeswin guy that I have the arrest warrants for he just got back Okay So No, I'm probably gonna be done with this fairly soon - Awesome - I just have to go through the closet and underneath the bed, but If you want help when with the, with the bed I’ll lift itup for you and - see what there is to be seen - Sure Let me know I am here for you guys Passport as well It's expired visa Gotcha Yeah Found some in his room as well Oh Passports are good Just showing that they're the residents Thanks We’ve got a small amount of… It's got an SD card in there? SD card in the corner by the bed here Awesome Is this on? I don't know, I never checked Does this plug in to any of the outlets? It looks like, uh it's gonna be one of the normal ones Normal? - Yeah - Did you grab that SD card? - Yeah, I put it, I put it right here - Okay The camera Yeah, looks like it Got all kind of fancy stuff and they're gonna be loaded with with photographs as well cuz he just got back, so Yeah And I don't think there's gonna be anything You don't want any of these? You want your own? Yeah, I'll just use... I don’t want you guys using up your supplies Yeah Yeah Starting to sound a lot like Dolan And it's starting to smell like Dolan Has anybody done this closet? Yeah Yeah, he went through the closet He found a couple cameras I should have known - Of course they went through the closet - Yeah This is sealed You don't need that No Really? This still need to get searched? No, he... Fisher went through there and he found one one cell phone, that was it - I can’t.. I can’t tell… - I start, I started I've been just moving stuff off the bed checking everything Other than that, I haven't - touched anything - Okay Memory card reader? Just in the bathroom In the bathroom with the... It looks like - Yeah, and this the one that was... - the packaging from the shipment where he got it so he must've just got that - so - Yeah and that was the one that's on his bed Yep This thing, overseas - Micro SD card right there - Yeah So that'll be a good one for the ICAC guys to screen Yeah, and then there was fresh photographs off of that other black one that I started looking at This one? Yeah Just like to point out the only other time I saw one of those was off Elijah Mitchell and I laughed A Bathing Ape And out Go up to that door Have a seat Kick your boots off Do you have your ID on you? Hmm No - Do you understand that right? - Yeah - Do you have a belt on or anything? - No Can you stand up for me Have a seat You got some little hands, man You wanna sit on that bench over there? Jeswin was processed at Harvard Police headquarters before being transported to the McHenry County Jail on 15 Class X felony counts involving minors But the evidence taken from his home still had more to reveal In 2026 Jeswin pleaded guilty to possession involving a single image while the other 14 Class 10 felony counts were dismissed He was sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered to pay more than $4,000 in fines You have the mom sitting there. She's completely clueless. She doesn't know that this young man or son is doing such horrible things. And you can't help but to feel sad about the situation. You know, her life has been ruined by You know, her life has been ruined by this young man, Jeswin and he's ruined his own life. He's going away for seven years. He's going to be a much different person when he gets out of prison.