Jefferson County Man Arrested on Child Porn and Sexual Exploitation Charges

A 46-year-old Pevely man was arrested Tuesday and charges were issued on a 17 criminal counts, including one count of sexual exploitation of a minor, one count of promoting child pornography, eight counts of statutory sodomy and five counts of incest.

The , along with the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, were contacted by the Nebraska State Patrol with information about child pornography. The information concerned a recording device purchased from a store in Nebraska by Daniel Fuller, 46, of the 9000 block of Ponderosa Dr., Pevely.

The camera later was returned to the store and a video was discovered that led the store to contact Nebraska law enforcement authorities, who in turn, notified the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department.

On Tuesday, detectives with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department, along with members of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, executed a search warrant at Fuller's Ponderosa address where several computers were seized and Fuller was taken into custody.

Fuller currently is being held in the Jefferson County Jail on a $250,000 cash-only bond.

The ICAC program is a national network under the domain of the U.S. Department of Justice of 61 coordinated task forces representing more than 2,000 federal, state, and local law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies.