HOUGHTON LAKE, Mich. – Several messages between a Michigan sex offender and a “12-year-old girl” have been released after an online tip led to his indictment.
A veteran Homeland Security investigator said a case that started with a single online tip escalated to the indictment of a Michigan sex offender.
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The HSI special agent working in Detroit said Andrew Kyle Holland, 49, of Houghton Lake, tried to transfer obscene material to a young girl. Records show Holland was convicted in 2010 for the same offense.
The Cybertip
Federal officials said the investigation into Holland began on June 13, 2025, when a Michigan State Police investigator was contacted about a Cybertip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) involving “the possible sexual exploitation of a minor female child.”
Discord, an app often used to play games, submitted the Cybertip, feds said. The tip focused on chats between May 22 and June 6, 2025.
Discord reported the user appeared “to be engaging in an inappropriate romantic and online relationship with the child victim,” including, “pressuring the child to perform sexual activity on voice calls.”
The reported user, Discord said, did not directly state an age, but “self-identifies as 18 years or older in Discord’s records,” and, “indicates they are 18 years or older in their descriptions of work.”
Meanwhile, the child victim, Discord reported, “claims to be 12 years old.”
Discord identified the suspect username as “aholy694fun#0000″ and provided a phone number and IP information linked to the account to federal investigators.
Michigan State Police said they then ran public IP address searches through the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), which identified the provider as Charter Communications. Charter handed over IP address information on June 27, 2025, listing Andrew Kyle Holland, of Houghton Lake.
On July 10, Charter also provided subscriber information for the IP address, and it listed Rifkin Scrap Iron & Metal Co. in West Branch. It also listed associated email and business contact numbers, court records said.
Holland is on the Michigan Sex Offender Registry, and his listed work address was the same address in West Branch, investigators said. But one of the most significant turns in the case, they added, was learning who was on the other side of the chats.
Who was behind the chats?
Michigan State Police determined that the Discord user was an Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) undercover investigator with the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office.
The undercover investigator (UC) provided chat records to Michigan State Police and the HSI agent, and they matched the chats flagged by Discord and provided in the NCMEC tip.
In those conversations, Holland “sent unsolicited photos of his exposed penis” and “unsolicited videos of himself, fully nude,” and performing other sex acts, according to authorities.
The feds said Holland also participated in video chats where he could be “fully seen and identified.” The undercover investigator’s camera “was not on,” but the undercover police officer was “actively engaging with Holland” by text and responding to his questions, court records said.
During those video chats, Holland allegedly asked the undercover officer -- who told him they were 12 -- to “get naked” with him, perform sex acts while on video, and allegedly instructed the undercover officer to perform sex acts. He also allegedly asked the child to tell him about it.
Feds said the explicit content was sent after clear statements about age: “Prior to Holland sending the above photos, videos, and engaging in video chats, the UC told Holland they were 12 years old.”
The chats
WARNING: Some of these messages are disturbing and explicit in nature.
The complaint filed in federal court pulled portions of the chats, including a May 28 exchange during which Holland is accused of asking intimate questions and making sexual comments.
In that excerpt, the account states: “Yea I’m only 12 and never done anything…”
It goes on to say: “during the above chat, after being informed of the other account’s age, Holland sent a photo of his exposed penis.”
Portion of chats from May 28, 2025:
- aholy694fun#0: “What are you wearing today my beautiful babygirl?”
… (cont.)
- Undercover officer: “Yea. Sweat pants and Hoodie didn’t feel like getting ready today”
- aholy694fun#0: “I bet you look sexy in your comfy clothes easier to strip you out of too”
- aholy694fun#0: “I wish I could see more of you”
- aholy694fun#0: “Where do you live? I’m in Michigan?”
- aholy694fun#0: “I want your kisses my babygirl”
- aholy694fun#0: “How is your morning going my babygirl?”
- aholy694fun#0: “I would love to see you in person.. my babygirl i would love to hold you and kiss you and hug you and so much more”
- aholy694fun#0: “Do you have any pics saved on your phone of you that I can see?”
More:
- Undercover officer: “Yea I’m only 12 and never done anything so scared I won’t make u happy”
- aholy694fun#0: “Have you ever seen a man naked for you?”
A search warrant was later served on Discord for the account “aholy694fun#0000,” and, “the records provided a full record of the chat” between Holland and the undercover account from May 22 to June 5, 2025, investigators said.
The complaint also included portions of a chat on May 29, 2026.
Portion of the chats from May 29, 2025:
- aholy694fun#0: “Mmm yay I’m already naked for you”
- aholy694fun#0: “Call me babygirl”
More:
- Undercover officer: “im trying but its not working on my stupid phone”
… (cont.)
- aholy694fun#0: “Calm down it will work”
- Undercover officer: “i hate my phone”
- aholy694fun#0: “Hit the camera button on the top right corner of this window”
- Undercover officer: “im sorry dont get mad at me”
Federal investigators said, “during the above chat, Holland and the other account engage in a video chat where Holland was visible” and performing a sex act and that, “Holland is instructing the UC on how to” perform the same sex act.
On April 9, Holland waived the indictment charging him with transfer of obscene material and commission of a felony offense involving a minor by a registered sex offender.
Holland consented to jail, pending trial.
He is scheduled to be arraigned on the information at 1 p.m. April 30, 2026, in Flint.