Strom may or may not have been set up by the feds in 2007 when he was arrested for possession of child pornography, and some other charges that were dismissed. I was aware of the case at the time and thought it was fishy. I may be remembering wrong, but I believe child porn was spammed onto his forum, got deleted by him or the mods, but was still in his browser's cache from loading the page when the feds raided. It was 10 pics, he took a plea deal and did 2 years in prison.

At the October 2007 federal trial on charges of "attempting to coerce a 10-year-old girl into a sexual relationship by sending her anonymous gifts, driving past her house and writing lyrics to love songs declaring his desire to marry her", and of witness intimidation, Judge Norman K. Moon threw out both charges due to lack of evidence of witness tampering or solicitation of sex, but added that Strom, then in his early 50s, had engaged in questionable conduct.