Winthrop Man Arrested on Child Porn Charges

A Winthrop man was arrested today and charged with possessing child pornography.  According to Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland, the State Police Computer Crimes Unit charged 20 year old Jon A. Hall with possessing  sexually explicit material of someone under the age of 12.  He was arrested at his home at 56 Route 133 in Winthrop, with the assistance of Winthrop Police and taken to the Kennebec County Jail.

McCausland said the computer crimes unit began investigating Hall in July after receiving a complaint from the Newton, NH police department that Hall was having sexually explicit conversations with a 12 year old boy on a social media site.  Hall’s computer was seized on July 29 and after it was analyzed an arrest warrant was issued for him.  He was being held this afternoon on $1,500 bail.