The New York State Police announced the arrest of Matthew Jones, age 31, of Liberty, New York, on February 6, 2026, on charges related to child sexual exploitation.<\/p>\n
Jones is charged with the following offense:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Possessing an Obscene Sexual Performance by a Child Less Than 16 Years of Age, Possess or Access, Class E Felony<\/p>\n
The arrest is the result of a proactive investigation that began in November 2025. The investigation revealed that Jones was in possession of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children. As a result, a search warrant was executed at Jones\u2019 residence in Liberty in February 2026.<\/p>\n
The investigation was conducted by the New York State Police Troop F Computer Crimes Unit, in coordination with the Troop F Child Abuse Unit, State Police Liberty Barracks, the Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) in Liberty, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).<\/p>\n
Jones was issued an appearance ticket and is scheduled to appear in the Town of Liberty Court on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
The State Police are asking anyone with information to contact the State Police at Middletown (845)344-5300.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York State Police announced the arrest of Matthew Jones, age 31, of Liberty, New York, on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-131072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}