{"id":319647,"date":"2026-08-12T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319647\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:30:09","slug":"pheonix-man-pretended-to-be-young-boy-and-sought-inappropriate-images-from-girl-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319647\/","title":{"rendered":"Pheonix man pretended to be young boy and sought &#8216;inappropriate images&#8217; from girl in Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHEONIX, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police announced the arrest of a Phoenix, N.Y. man on child exploitation charges.<\/p>\n<p>The state police said Bryan M. Wood, 20, was charged with disseminating indecent material to a minor in the first degree on Aug. 11.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the matter began on July 1, when the troopers received a report of a possible incident involving a juvenile from Ohio. The investigation determined that a 12-year-old girl was communicating through a social media platform with someone she thought was a juvenile boy, who was actually Wood.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, during their conversations, Wood requested &#8220;inappropriate images&#8221; from the victim while pretending to be the boy. Investigators recovered digital evidence that Wood allegedly sent to the minor. Wood also repeatedly communicated inappropriately with the victim.<\/p>\n<p>Wood was arrested at his address. He was taken to the Oswego County Jail for arraignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHEONIX, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police announced the arrest of a Phoenix, N.Y. man on child&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-319647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319647","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=319647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}