Court documents detail sexual assault allegations against former councilman

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AMMON — Court documents allege a former Ammon councilman committed sex crimes for the past seven years before suddenly resigning from his post.

Byron Wiscombe, 44, faces charges of lewd conduct with a child, sexual abuse of a child, video voyeurism and two misdemeanors of sexual abuse. Idaho State Police began investigating Wiscombe in November after he was re-elected and shortly before he resigned from the city council.

Investigators spoke to an alleged victim who said that when she was a teenager, Wiscombe began sexually abusing her in 2014. The alleged sexual abuse has continued over the past seven years and has not ended. arrested when the victim turned 18. The last alleged sexual assaults took place in April 2021, according to court documents.

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The same victim said in 2019 that he heard a phone notification coming from a vent above his bathtub. Victim removed the vent and found Wiscombe’s cell phone in camera mode. When the victim looked at the phone, she said she discovered a nude photo of herself.

The alleged voyeurism didn’t stop there, with the victim later finding the phone in her laundry room and in her bedroom at her home. The victim suspects Wiscombe used his Apple Watch to remotely operate his phone’s camera.

State police spoke to another woman who claimed that between April and September 2021, Wiscombe sexually assaulted her, resulting in one of two misdemeanor counts against Wiscombe.

Court documents do not detail Wiscombe’s version of events, and he has no attorneys listed to represent him at this time.

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Soldiers arrested Wiscombe on Wednesday morning at his workplace where he works as a vice president at a bank. He was incarcerated at the Bonneville County Jail and is expected to make his first court appearance on Thursday afternoon.

Wiscombe resigned without explanation from his position on Ammon City Council on December 2 after recently being elected to another term. Wiscombe had been a member of the city council eight years before his resignation.

Although Wiscombe is accused of a crime, it does not necessarily mean that he committed it. Everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

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