Pekin Man Arrested on Child Pornography Charges

Additional Charges could be forthcoming

PEKIN, Ind. — Indiana State Police arrested a Washington County man Monday, April 28, 2025, on child pornography charges, following a multi-state investigation initiated by cyber tips.
 

The investigation began in January 2025 when the Bay County Sheriff’s Department in Florida referred cyber tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to the ISP Sellersburg Post’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force. The tips pointed to a suspect in Indiana. ISP detectives in Sellersburg identified 48-year-old Jerame Jan Hall of Pekin as the suspect through their investigation.

On Monday, ISP executed a search warrant at Hall’s residence in Pekin. Hall was taken into custody without incident and booked into Washington County Jail on two preliminary counts of possession of child pornography, with additional charges pending.

The Indiana Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force is a multi-agency Task Force that investigates and prosecutes persons who use the internet to sexually exploit or entice children. The Indiana State Police oversees the Task Force.
 
The Indiana ICAC Task Force encourages Hoosiers to report online exploitation, solicitation, and enticement-type crimes against children to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). The NCMEC website can be accessed through the ICAC Task Force website. To report a crime with your child as a victim involving the Internet or other electronic means, please contact your local Indiana law enforcement agency.