Calgary lawyer accused of sexting with teens on Snapchat is charged with child luring - BERITAJA

An Alberta lawyer has been charged pinch respective child intersexual exploitation offences aft allegedly sexting pinch pre-teens and teenagers connected societal media.

Jordan Randall Bonner, 46, is simply a criminal defence lawyer successful Calgary who appears to beryllium self-employed. Bonner has been a practicing personnel of the Law Society of Alberta since 2009 and is besides a personnel of the Criminal Defence Lawyers Association (CDLA).

Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) alleges the accused engaged successful sexually definitive matter chats pinch aggregate younker and shared kid intersexual exploitation materials, formerly referred to arsenic kid pornography.

The alleged offences took spot successful December 2025, ALERT said, according to an investigative referral shared by the RCMP’s National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

The victims were betwixt 11 and 15 years old.

Investigators allege the accused communicated pinch them via Snapchat nether these 3 usernames: jrcbonner, whydoyoucare197 and daddysboi10.

Bonner was arrested connected April 30 by ALERT’s net kid exploitation (ICE) portion and the Calgary Police Service. His location and rule agency successful that metropolis were searched.

ALERT says the investigation is ongoing and ICE is completing forensic study connected the computers and physics devices that were seized.

As that activity takes place, ICE is looking to place imaginable victims and is encouraging anyone pinch accusation about this lawsuit to travel guardant and interaction police.

Bonner has been charged with:

• Child luring
• Making kid intersexual maltreatment materials disposable to a child
• Making kid intersexual maltreatment materials
• Distributing kid intersexual maltreatment materials
• Possessing kid intersexual maltreatment materials
• Accessing kid intersexual maltreatment materials
• Unauthorized possession of a firearm
• Possession of a firearm knowing its possession is unauthorized
• Careless retention of a firearm

In an unrelated matter, Bonner was besides charged precocious past twelvemonth pinch allegedly harassing a Calgary constabulary serviceman who had been investigating him.

In November of 2024, Calgary constabulary asked the RCMP to analyse a imaginable criminal harassment and intimidation business successful which a CPS serviceman was the victim.

Police said the accused had antecedently been the taxable of an investigation by Calgary police. Following this investigation, RCMP said the accused turned to defamatory, anti-law enforcement online contented against Calgary constabulary and the lead interrogator successful the matter.

“He continued to station online content, which evolved into threats and stalking behaviours against the officer,” RCMP said successful a news release.

Bonner was arrested connected Nov. 19, 2025, charged pinch criminal harassment and released. He had a tribunal day successful January connected that matter.

After being arrested again past week by ALERT, Bonner was released from custody. His adjacent scheduled tribunal quality is May 7.

Anyone pinch accusation about the kid intersexual exploitation investigation is encouraged to interaction section constabulary aliases Crime Stoppers (1-800-222-TIPS).