Since the beginning of this year, agents with the Attorney General’s Child Predator Section have arrested more than 120 suspected child predators.
The latest arrests occurred over the past week following separate investigations in Fayette and Lehigh counties. The defendants are:
- Matthew Robert Sible, 29, 13 Christy Lane, Fairchance, Fayette County.
- Andrew Scott Wilcox Jr., 29, 614 South Bergan St., Bethlehem, Lehigh County.
Sible was arrested after an undercover investigation on a file-sharing network led to his residence.
Agents with the Attorney General’s Child Predator Section and the Pennsylvania State Police executed a search warrant on Thursday and recovered a laptop computer. A preliminary search of the computer by the Office of Attorney General’s Computer Forensic Unit revealed multiple images of suspected child pornography.
Sible is charged with six counts of distribution of child pornography, two counts of possession of child pornography and one count of criminal use of a communication facility.
He is currently being held at the Fayette County Prison in lieu of $250,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 22.
Attorney General Kane thanked the Pennsylvania State Police for their assistance with Sible’s arrest.
Sible will be prosecuted by Deputy Attorney General Jessel A. Costa III of the Child Predator Section.
Wilcox charges
Agents with the Attorney General’s Child Predator Section on Thursday arrested Wilcox in Bethlehem. Wilcox is accused of possessing and distributing child pornography using a peer-to-peer file sharing network.
During an undercover investigation in July, agents located images of suspected child pornography linked to an IP address belonging to Wilcox.
While executing a search warrant at Wilcox’s residence, agents recovered a computer with several files indicative of child pornography.
Wilcox was placed under arrest and charged with one count of distribution of child pornography, 10 counts of possession of child pornography and one count of criminal use of a communication facility.
He is being held in the Lehigh County Jail in lieu of $75,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 17.
Wilcox will be prosecuted by Deputy Attorney General Rebecca Elo of the Office of Attorney General’s Child Predator Section.
Reporting Child Predators
Suspected child predators can be reported to the Office of Attorney General by calling the Child Predator Hotline at 1-800-385-1044. Individuals who suspect an online predator or child sexual abuse can also send an anonymous tip to the office by texting PAKIDS + YOUR TIP to 847411.
(A person charged with a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty.)
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