Farmington Man Arrested For Promotion of Child Pornography

The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control arrested a Farmington man Jan. 5 on child pornography charges. 

Jacob Ryan Sutton, 22, has been charged with one count of promotion of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. 

Investigators seized child pornography and electronic devices during a search. 

Sutton is being held at the St. Francois County Jail, with a bond of $50,000.

The Division of Drug and Crime Control encourages internet users to promptly report to the Patrol or local law enforcement anyone who attempts to engage in unwanted, inappropriate, or sexualized communications with children. The Digital Forensics Investigative Unit is partially funded by the Missouri Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.