Judge denies motion to suppress in Hopkins case

DAVENPORT – Presiding judge Dan B. Johnson denied a motion Tuesday to suppress in a 3.6 hearing concerning a search warrant conducted at 1311 Logan Street prior to the arrests of Michelle L. Hopkins and Scotty Duane Maiden on charges of possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct in the first and second degree in late December 2020.

Hopkins is now facing 25 counts regarding the above charges.

Johnson had ruled that a thumb drive containing body camera footage from Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office deputy Kurt Cuzzetto of the search warrant executed at Hopkins’ Logan S...