{"id":21755,"date":"2025-11-01T14:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21755\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T14:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:03:08","slug":"reading-man-facing-child-pornography-charge-in-luzerne-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21755\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading man facing child pornography charge in Luzerne Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUTLER TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Reading man is facing felony child pornography charges in Luzerne County.<\/p>\n<p>Butler Township Police arrested Jonathan Cruz, 29, after a five-month-long investigation.<\/p>\n<p>According to a criminal complaint, Cruz allegedly sent inappropriate messages to a juvenile through social media in 2024 and controlled her access to a gaming console in exchange for nude photos.<\/p>\n<p>Butler Township Police claim he was aware the victim was a minor. Police were contacted by the victim\u2019s mother in May 2025.  That&#8217;s when police used a search warrant to obtain the messages between Cruz and the victim.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz faces felony charges of possessing child pornography, unlawful contact with a minor and criminal use of a communication facility.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken into custody Oct. 30 in Reading and waived extradition back to Luzerne County.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary hearing is scheduled for November in Luzerne County Central Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUTLER TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Reading man is facing felony child pornography charges in Luzerne County.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-21755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21755","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=21755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}