A bench warrant has been issued for the arrest of Michael Vinson Nix, 35, who had been scheduled to go to trial July 10 on three Class A misdemeanor charges. Nix, who has pleaded not guilty to all the charges, is charged with surreptitious intrusion, creation or possession of sexually expressive images, and dissemination of sexually expressive images.

Nix failed to appear at a pretrial conference in district court in Minot on June 26, according to the bench warrant signed by Judge Gary Lee. Lee also canceled the trial.

Nix stands accused of taking photos of his former roommate while she was sleeping naked and of stealing and distributing sexually explicit photos of another former roommate without her permission. Both alleged victims are adults.

According to a probable cause affidavit filed in the case, the Grand Forks County Sheriff’s Office made contact with Minot police on Aug. 8, 2016 after they received complaints about Nix’s alleged behavior. One former roommate told police that she believed Nix had taken photos of her while she lived with him in Minot. The second alleged victim told police that Nix had lived with her and her boyfriend in Grand Forks until May 2015. She believed Nix had stolen photos from her cell phone, which he had borrowed, and had copied a disc that contained photos of her from a lingerie shoot. Nix allegedly sent the photos to people over social media between May 2015 and August 2016.