Sex crime charges against Walhalla area man

A 38-year old man near Walhalla was jailed Wednesday, charged with multiple sex crime offenses.  Law enforcement records released by Oconee Sheriff’s Office show one charge of criminal solicitation of a minor and four charges of disseminating obscene material to a person under 18.  The solicitation charge against Leonard Mays Winkler alleges that he “knowingly contacted or communicated with a person he believed to be a female under the age of eighteen years and solicited said person to provide sexually explicit photographs of herself to him.”  The unlawful obscene material warrants accuse Winkler of “disseminate obscene and harmful material, which he knew to be obscene, to a person he believed to be under the age of eighteen.”