Three North Idaho men sentenced to federal prison on child exploitation charges

Oct. 31 — Three North Idaho men will spend years in federal prison after prosecutors secured convictions for child pornography and solicitation.

Rathdrum resident Donovan Vinton Nagle, 62, will go to prison for 71/2 years and then spend the rest of his life under the supervision of federal probation agents, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s office from Idaho.

Vinton was caught in an online operation during the summer of 2023 by a federal agent who pretended to be the mother of an 11-year-old girl. Vinton sent pictures and arranged to meet the fictitious mother and her daughter for sex at a Coeur d’Alene hotel.

Instead, he was met in the hotel parking lot and arrested by investigators while carrying a bag of candy, ice cream bars and energy drinks.

In another case, Lewiston resident Eric Marshall Villa, 39, was sent to prison for nine years for possession of child pornography.

Federal investigators seized Villa’s phone and found that he had received more than 750 child pornography videos and shared more than 550 videos. He was exchanging porn with others online using pseudonyms on Instagram and Telegram, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

And David William Peer, 47, of Moscow, Idaho, was sent to federal prison for 10 years for possession of child pornography.

Peer is already a registered sex offender and when investigators searched his home following tips, they found more than 1,000 images of child pornography.

“I am proud of my office’s efforts to work with law enforcement across our state to locate and bring to justice child predators,” U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit said in a statement.