{"id":38463,"date":"2026-07-19T11:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/?p=38463"},"modified":"2026-07-18T06:58:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:58:41","slug":"beltrami-county-man-held-on-sex-crime-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/beltrami-county-man-held-on-sex-crime-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Beltrami County Man Held on Sex Crime Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<h2>Beltrami County Man Held on Sex Crime Charge<\/h2>\n<p><strong>BELTRAMI COUNTY<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trfnews.i234.me<\/a>) \u2014 A man was booked into the Beltrami County Jail on a felony sex crime charge.<\/p>\n<p>Jail records identify the man as Joey Lee. He entered custody on Thursday, July 16, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Lee is listed in jail records under case number 2026011216. The case is assigned to the District Court.<\/p>\n<h2>Second-Degree Charge Filed<\/h2>\n<p>Records list one count of second-degree criminal sexual conduct.<\/p>\n<p>The listed charge involves alleged sexual contact with a child younger than 14.<\/p>\n<p>The statute also applies when the accused person is more than 36 months older than the child.<\/p>\n<p>The charge is listed under Minnesota Statute 609.343, subdivision 1(a)(e).<\/p>\n<p>Readers can review the law through the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/statutes\/cite\/609.343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Legislature\u2019s Office of the Revisor of Statutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CENTERED MUGSHOT --><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 25px 0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: inline-block;\" title=\"Joey Lee booking photo\" src=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LeeJoey.png\" alt=\"Joey Lee Beltrami County Jail booking photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>Joey Lee booking photo.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Bail and Court Information<\/h2>\n<p>The jail roster lists Lee\u2019s bail or fine amount as $0.<\/p>\n<p>No court date was included in the available booking information.<\/p>\n<p>The case remains listed for review in District Court.<\/p>\n<p>Case schedules and public court information may be available through the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mncourts.gov\/Access-Case-Records.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Judicial Branch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Charges are allegations and do not prove guilt.<\/p>\n<p>Lee is presumed innocent unless proven guilty through the court process.<\/p>\n<p>The available jail record did not include a detailed account of the alleged incident.<\/p>\n<p>It also did not identify a future hearing date or list a bail type.<\/p>\n<p>TRF News will provide updates when verified court information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Adrian Cole, reporting for <a href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TRF News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<footer>Copyright 2026 TRF News. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joey Lee was booked into the Beltrami County Jail on a second-degree criminal sexual conduct charge involving a child under age 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[16518],"tags":[1223,17733,848,768,772,3148,151,11819,794],"class_list":["post-38463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recently-booked","tag-beltrami","tag-booked","tag-charge","tag-county","tag-crime","tag-held","tag-man","tag-recently","tag-sex","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38465,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38463\/revisions\/38465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}