Arkansas State Police agents on Tuesday arrested a Harrison man who authorities say had child sexual abuse material on his device and engaged in a sexual chat online with a teenage girl, the state police said Wednesday.
Agents and Harrison police following a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children executed a search warrant at the home of Justin Perkuhn, 38, leading to his arrest and the seizure of his devices, according to a state police news release.
Investigators determined that Perkuhn had exchanged nude photos of two minors with a 17-year-old girl during a graphic sexual chat and located 34 videos and six images of child sexual abuse materials he had uploaded to a cloud-based storage server.
Perkuhn had more child sex abuse photos and videos on his phone, authorities said, which allowed them to identify and locate two victims who live near Perkuhn.
Authorities booked Perkuhn into the Boone County jail, where he was being held in lieu of a $750,000 bond on 50 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material and one count each of computer exploitation of a child, video voyeurism of an adult and video voyeurism of a child, the release states.