Gladstone man arrested for possession of child pornography
A four-month-investigation culminated with the arrest of a Gladstone man yesterday for possession of child sexual abuse material.
Sheriff’s Office deputies and Special Victims Unit detectives served a search warrant yesterday at the residence of 51-year-old Cecil Cameron, Jr. He has been charged with two felony counts of possession of child sexual abuse material. The Court set his bond at $50,000. The investigation is ongoing, and more charges may be warranted based on analysis of evidence seized from the home, which included electronic devices and apparent narcotics.
Special Victims Unit investigators received an Internet Crimes Against Children tip in this case in March 2026. They have worked through several legal processes over the last several months to gather evidence, culminating yesterday in Cameron’s arrest and the search warrant of his house in the 200 block of NE 77th Street, Gladstone, Mo.
The Clay County Sheriff’s Office is part of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program. It is a network of 61 coordinated task forces, representing more than 5,400 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, dedicated to investigating, prosecuting and developing effective responses to internet crimes against children.
This case was a result of a tip to the Cyber Tipline, the nation’s centralized reporting system for the online exploitation of children. It is operated by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Those tips are routed to local law enforcement like the Clay County Sheriff’s Office for investigation.
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