A 54-year-old Anchorage man has been charged with federal firearms and drug offenses after law enforcement received information that he sexually assaulted a minor.
FBI Child Exploitation Task Force officer Dawn Neer wrote the criminal complaint against the suspect, Steven Maddox. She posed as an underage girl and texted Maddox before law enforcement arrested him Tuesday in the parking lot of the Costco along Debarr Road in Anchorage.
Maddox has felony convictions in California, including assault with a deadly weapon, the complaint says.
In 2013, the Anchorage Police Department received a tip that Maddox was dealing drugs out of an Anchorage strip club, the complaint says. That report was not investigated.
It was also reported that Maddox gave "Molly," a synthetic drug sometimes comprised of MDMA, to two underage girls and "made Juvenile A" perform sex acts, the complaint says.
The complaint does not include the girls' ages. Neer did not return a call for comment.
Neer wrote in the complaint that she obtained the girl's cell phone and sent Maddox messages, posing as the minor. According to a transcript of those conversations, Maddox agreed to sell the girl pills.
Federal agents watched Maddox enter the Costco parking lot in a black Dodge Durango. He was arrested and found to be in possession of $3,100 in $100 bills, the complaint says.
Neer obtained a search warrant for the truck and found several capsules of Molly scattered about its interior. Officers also found bottles of rum and vanilla vodka and pink handcuffs, the complaint says.
Dale Bivins rents out the home next to Maddox's in East Anchorage. He went over to the rental to curb some trash on Tuesday and witnessed federal agents searching his neighbor's home. A van was backed up to the front door; people in white Tyvek suits went in and out of the home, he said.
Inside Maddox's home, officers seized empty gel caps, small plastic bags emblazoned with images of apples and cars and four scales, three of which allegedly were covered with drug residue, the complaint says.
Two firearms were also located in the home. Maddox's wife told officers she owned the Remington shotgun but denied ownership of a handgun, according to the complaint.
Bivins said he never saw suspicious activity at Maddox's house, like people coming or going during the night. But he said Maddox was a confrontational neighbor, so Bivins avoided him.
Maddox made an initial appearance in Anchorage federal court Thursday.