Ned Brady Hansen

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1. Tremonton fire chief arrested for sharing child sex abuse material, police say, KSL, January 29, 2025.
2. Tremonton Mayor: Fire chief’s employment terminated after arrest for alleged child exploitation, Gephardt Daily, January 29, 2025.
3. Retired Jackson fire chief arrested on exploitation charges , Jackson Hole News and Guide, January 31, 2025.
4. Ex-Tremonton fire chief charged with sexual abuse of a child, documents say, ABC 4 (Salt Lake City, Utah), July 2, 2025.

• 1. Tremonton fire chief arrested for sharing child sex abuse material, police say

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• 3. Retired Jackson fire chief arrested on exploitation charges

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  Retired Jackson Hole Fire/EMS chief Brady Hansen, 54, was arrested on Monday by the Brigham City (Utah) Police Department, charged with sexual exploitation of a minor.

  Hansen had been serving as the fire chief for Tremonton City, Utah. He is being held in the Box Elder County jail in Brigham City on a $50,000 cash bond.

  The arrest comes on the heels of a two-month investigation through the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the Utah Attorney General’s Office of Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

  The case was referred to the neighboring community of Brigham City because Hansen was an employee of Tremonton City, according to local news reports.

  The following graphic details, garnered from the probable cause affidavit, might be triggering to some readers. — Ed.

  According to court documents, Hansen admitted to possessing videos that were originally identified in a report submitted to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children from the social media platform Kik in November.

  According to court documents, Hansen was arrested on eight counts of sexual exploitation of a minor — one count for each digital file shared, according to Kik’s report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

  Police also seized phones and tablets that will be further analyzed. Court documents state that Hansen had videos that allegedly contained images of preteen girls saved on his phone.

  Hansen has been terminated from his position at the Tremonton Fire Department.

  “Based on serious criminal charges being filed against Chief Ned Brady Hansen, Tremonton City has terminated his employment, effective immediately,” Tremonton Mayor Lyle Holmgren told the Gephardt Daily.

  Hansen served as Jackson Hole’s fire chief for five years, starting at the end of 2017 and retiring from the position in October 2022.

  According to the Jackson Hole Daily’s sister publication, the Jackson Hole News&Guide, Hansen served as a firefighter for 30 years. He said in a 2022 article that he was looking forward to spending more time with family and starting his own business.

  After his retirement in Jackson, Hansen quickly took the position of fire chief of the Tremonton Fire Department, serving the small community tucked between Utah state highways 15 and 84.

  Tremonton is about 20 miles west of Logan, Utah, where Hansen served most of his life as a firefighter before coming to Jackson in 2017.

• 4. Ex-Tremonton fire chief charged with sexual abuse of a child, documents say

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  WEBER COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) — The former Tremonton fire chief, previously accused of discussing and exchanging graphic sexual images of children, has been charged with the sexual abuse of a child.

  Ned Brady Hansen, 54, is facing a new charge of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony. He was previously charged with eight counts of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor in March 2025.

  Hansen and the former Box Elder Judge Kevin Christensen were allegedly found to be connected in discussions of sexual crimes against children. They exchanged child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and at points mentioned abuse of children in their real lives.

  According to documents, following Hansen’s arrest in January, a female child under the age of 10 “over whom [Hansen] occupied a position of special trust” told her parents that she believed that he had sexually abused her.

  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) performed an interview with the child victim. She told law enforcement that Hansen had sexually abused her on multiple occasions.

  In the review of alleged messages sent by Hansen and exchanged with other adult users, they discovered that he had discussed his engagement in “the sexual abuse of underage children in the past” and described his abuse of this child victim.

  The ways he described the sexual abuse of the underage child matched up with the account that she shared during the interview. Hansen also explained that he purposefully took care to “ensure that his sexual abuse can be justified as otherwise normal behavior,” describing the actions he took as “very careful.”

  Hansen and Christensen are both scheduled to appear in court tomorrow, July 3, on their charges at 2 p.m.