BETHLEHEM, NY (WRGB) \u2014 A Bethlehem man is facing felony porn charges after a warrant search of his home.<\/p>\n
MORE: Bethlehem man accused of possessing child sexual exploitation images after cyber tip<\/a> | Search of electronics leads to Hudson man\u2019s arrest in child sex abuse images investigation<\/a><\/p>\n On March 26, 2026, State Police of Latham, with the assistance of the Troop G Computer Crimes Unit, the Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, arrested Samuel A. Stothart, 21, of Bethlehem, for Possessing a Sexual Performance by a Child, a class \u201cE\u201d felony.<\/p>\n Stothart is accused of possessing images consistent with child sexual exploitation. His arrest followed an investigation and the execution of a search warrant at his residence in Bethlehem, NY on March 266. The investigation stemmed from a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children<\/a> (NCMEC).<\/p>\n Stothart was arrested and processed at SP Latham. He was issued an appearance ticket returnable to the Bethlehem Town Court on April 21, 2026, and released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, NY (WRGB) \u2014 A Bethlehem man is facing felony porn charges after a warrant search of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-156539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}