Correctional sergeant arrested in child sex abuse materials case in Chowchilla

CHOWCHILLA, Calif. (KFSN) -- A authorities situation worker is successful jailhouse Thursday, accused of distributing and possessing kid intersexual maltreatment materials.

39-year-old Ralph Contreras Junior is simply a sergeant with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

He was arrested Thursday pursuing a hunt warrant astatine a location connected Muirfield Road adjacent Monarch Road successful Chowchilla.

The Madera County Sheriff's Office says it received a extremity from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Detectives past worked with Homeland Security and the Central California Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force to marque an arrest.

They besides seized Contreras Jr.'s physics devices arsenic the probe continues.