21-06-2025
Long-haul truck driver from Utah arrested for possessing CSAM, charges say
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GRAND COUNTY, Utah () — A long-haul truck driver from Utah has been arrested and charged with allegedly possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and having inappropriate conversations about children.
Leo Jacob Stocks, 38, has been charged with four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, two counts of assault by a prisoner, and one count of interference with an arresting officer.
According to documents, a sergeant with the Grand County Sheriff's Office was assigned the investigation of National Center for Missing and Exploited Children CyberTips. These tips were from Kik, a social media and messaging app, and said that the suspect was using the platform to possess and distribute CSAM.
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The sergeant obtained search warrants for the Kik account and associated Google and AT&T accounts. A separate investigation by law enforcement in Maryland had located the suspect's phone number and email. Using this information, the suspect was identified as Stocks, who lived in Green River, Utah, and was a long-haul truck driver for a company based out of Illinois.
On June 16, 2025, sheriff deputies found that Stocks was traveling on I-70 in Grand County. They performed a traffic stop on him. The investigating sergeant read Stocks his Miranda Rights and then had a conversation about the alleged CSAM connected to him through the investigation.
Documents say that Stocks at first avoided the questions, but then confessed that he had CSAM on his phone. He also admitted to having sexual desires for children, but 'denied ever acting on those desires.'
Search warrants for the devices were served on Stocks' devices, and four files of 'prepubescent' CSAM were located, one of which was downloaded in the last 48 hours. When the sergeant reviewed messages Stocks sent on Kik, he found that he had 'multiple conversations attempting to arrange meetings with juvenile children.'
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Also in those conversations, Stocks allegedly confessed to sexually abusing an infant when he was a juvenile. Messages regarding his desires to engage in sexually abusing young children were found on Kik as well. Documents say that Stocks had been making offers to babysit children in Green River, but had been turned down.
'Based on the conversations had by the suspect, his admittance to having sexual desires to children, his attempts to act on these desires, and his employment allowing him to travel across the country, Leo poses an extreme risk to all communities should he be allowed to be released,' one of the documents reads.
Stocks was booked into the Grand County Jail and is currently being held without bail. He has an initial appearance in court on June 23.
Report child sexual abuse material to law enforcement by contacting the ICAC Tip Line at (801) 281-1211 or your local law enforcement agency.
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