On Friday, December 7th, 2012, Jerry Franklin Richey, age 32, of Mena, Arkansas, was arrested on a Marion County Felony warrant for: Computer Child Pornography and Unlawful Use of a Communications Device, bond $35,000.00. The arrest is the result of an undercover online investigation, in which Richey made contact and engaged in sexually explicit chats, along with sending pornographic images of his self, via the internet, with who he believed was a 14 year old girl, which in fact was an undercover investigator from the Marion County Sheriff’s Department. Richey is currently awaiting his first appearance before the Marion County Circuit Court. Assisting in the arrest was the Polk County Sheriff’s Department.
