Onley nurse practitioner arrested in FBI raid accused of distributing child sexual abuse material
ONLEY, Va. (WAVY) — A nurse practitioner on the Eastern Shore facing multiple child sexual abuse material charges was arrested in an FBI raid on Tuesday morning.
Lucas Allen Fussell, 42, was arrested at his house at 25527 Coastal Boulevard in Onley, according to court documents. He’s been charged with distribution of child pornography after authorities say he sent the materials to an FBI employee on June 22 and June 30.
Online records show Fussell has been with Eastern Shore Rural Health since 2012, and also runs a separate “holistic health” business called Compassion In Care MCC, LLC.
Fussell’s arrest comes four months after another person was arrested by the FBI-MPD Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, a joint taskforce with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C.
Authorities got access to that person’s phone, and eventually found conversations on Session, an encrypted messing app, that they were able to link back to Fussell. The two first began messaging on the dating app Grindr, the criminal complaint explains.
The Session messages from December 20, 2023 to Feb. 7, 2024 included multiple videos and images containing child sexual abuse material, court documents show. Fussell also met up with the person from Session on December 29, 2023, and shared his address as 25527 Coastal Boulevard, authorities say.
Based on the court documents, there’s no indication that the victims in the child sexual abuse material were Fussell’s patients. However, authorities say he shared multiple messages that described his patients in an explicit manner. In one conversation, he talks about one man who he allegedly had a sexual relationship with.
Fussell said he used a VPN to try to evade detection, court documents show.
“I have NordVPN running on my router,” authorities say he messaged the other user on Session. “Everything in my house is run through that VPN.4 The device I’m on is Google pixel unlocked that I installed Graphene on. Its an Android OS that prevents google tracking anything. I used APKs to install session so I didn’t have to provide google.with an account email that could be traced. I only used the WiFi on this when on my router with VPN. Also I turned off all.permissions for everything before I attached it to the internet. Then when an app needed permission, I could grant permission as needed. No location permissions ever. That laptop we watched on was not on line.”
Property records show Fussell bought the Onley home back in 2013 with another person, but records list Fussell as the sole owner of the home since 2021.
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