Jury convicts Altoona man for unlawful contact with minor

HOLLIDAYSBURG — A city man with an apparent history of targeting juvenile females was convicted Tuesday afternoon of two felony offenses relating to the unlawful contact of a minor in 2023. After a one-day trial, a Blair County jury of eight men and four women deliberated about 25 minutes before finding Daniel Earnest Conway III, 40, guilty of a single felony count each of disseminating explicit sexual material to a minor and unlawful contact with a minor – obscene and other sexual materials and performances. The charges were brought after Altoona police, investigating a report relating to Conway, learned the Greenfield Township Police Department had an open case against him involving a 15-year-old girl. Conway was communicating with the victim through Snapchat and sent her an animated picture of a couple in the shower with the caption “shower time,” the police report states. During the first and only day of Conway’s jury trial, Assistant District Attorney Nicholas Mays and Chief Public Defender Julia Burke agreed to stipulate to the jury that the Snapchat username mentioned in the police report belonged to Conway. Mays then called Kimberly Bem to the stand. Bem, a detective with the Blair County District Attorney’s Office
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