Overview
- Michigan State Police arrested Nelson Otto Ropke, 41, on Tuesday after an investigation linked to his Grosse Pointe Park home on the 800 block of Harcourt Road.
- Prosecutors charged him with 26 felonies that include aggravated child sexually abusive activity, aggravated distribution and possession, capturing or distributing images of an unclothed person, possession of abusive matter, and 13 computer‑crime counts.
- A judge arraigned Ropke in Grosse Pointe Park Municipal Court and set a $1 million cash bond with a GPS tether.
- A prosecutor’s office representative alleged he used image‑editing tools to place faces of relatives onto existing child sexual abuse images and shared the results online.
- A probable cause conference is set for May 5 and a preliminary examination for May 13, which is the hearing where prosecutors outline key evidence and say they will release more details.