Massive child porn cache found on Lawton man’s computer

A Lawton man is in jail on a $5 million cash only bond after being charged with having massive amounts of violent child pornography on his computer and hard drive, according to investigators.

Dominic Andreas Tikovsky, 33, made his initial appearance Wednesday afternoon in Comanche County District Court where he received 10 felony counts of aggravated possession of child pornography and a count of violation of Oklahoma Statue via computer, and a misdemeanor charge of threatening to perform an act of violence, records indicate.

Lawton Police Officer Drue Watkins stated he responded around 9:30 p.m. Aug. 15 to a home in the 2100 block of Southwest A Avenue after a woman reported her roommate, Tikovsky, had illegal material on his computer.

The woman said Tikovsky had been staying on her living room couch for about a week. A few days earlier, she said, she came to the apartment and found him watching illegal materials from his computer on her television, the probable cause affidavit states. She said he told her he would “kill her” if she spoke with anyone or went to the police, Watkins stated. She said she was terrified for her life.

While explaining the situation to police, the woman “started breathing frantically and had a panic attack,” according to the officer.

When Tikovsky arrived at the home soon after from work, police arrested him for threats of bodily harm and took him to jail.

Several search warrants were received for Tikovsky’s vehicle, computer, hard drive and electronic devices. Detectives from the Special Operations Unit viewed the content and found numerous files containing pre-pubescent photos and videos, the affidavit states.

District Attorney Kyle Cabelka said this would be the largest cache of child pornography, much of it containing extreme violence and possibly at least one murder, he’s seen in 13 years with the prosecutor’s office.

“It’s of the like this office hasn’t seen before,” he said. “It’s the most horrible stuff.”

Lead prosecutor Jill Oliver told The Constitution she was tasked with tracking the provenance of the files. She called it disturbing.

Tikovsky told detectives the laptop computer and hard drive were his, Detective Jeff McCoy stated. He also admitted there was child pornography on the devices that he’d downloaded from the “Dark Web,” according to the affidavit. After Tikovsky provided his password, the detective stated, he viewed numerous files and videos containing pre-pubescent children.

Cabelka told The Constitution there is information Tikovsky had been living in Germany before moving to Lawton and that he may have been fleeing similar charges overseas.

“I’m going to have the U.S. Marshals check into that,” he said.

Tikovsky returns to court at 3 p.m. Oct. 15 for his preliminary hearing conference, records indicate.