Jeremy Peter Williams was 49, the principal of Rainier Junior Senior High School in Oregon, a role built on trust and responsibility. But on August 28th, 2025, cyber tips about suspected child material led investigators to an IP address in Longview, Washington. That address belonged to Williams. Hey. >> Holy sh- Jeremy? Yeah. All right. How do you come out here and chat with me real quick? Sure. I catch you at like your gym time or something? Or Uh you know the law, but I don't know the law. >> Okay. Wow. Just take off over here real quick. Just real quick to let you know I am audio video recording. Actually, we all are. Spotty camera stuff. Any idea why we're here today? Okay. Uh I'm going to be real up front with you. You are under arrest right now. Oh. There's one or two things we can do. Either we can just go ahead and run you down to jail and uh go about our business. I have a search warrant to go through the house as well. Okay. The alternative is this, you can come back, you can have a conversation with me at the office. Yeah. Um it'll give you an opportunity to maybe give your side of it or maybe feel heard. It's just kind of up to you how you want to play it. What is this for? Across the last couple of months, we've received some information through some various sources about your online conduct. Um I've had a chance to go through it. Uh one of my counterparts who works for Longview PD has as well. That's why we're having this conversation today. If you want to continue to chat chatting about it, I'd prefer to do that down at the office. >> Yeah. >> So, that that work for you? >> Yeah. Okay. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to have another marked car come out. Great. Um have him give you a ride down there, and then we'll have a conversation. In the meantime, some of my counterparts are going to search your house, okay? You will get a copy of the search warrant along with a receipt for anything that I take. Okay. Does that Does that seem fair? Yeah. Okay. Seems interesting. Do you have your phone on you? Yeah. I'll take that. 18:15, David 3, you can come on out. It's included in this. Do you have anything else on you? Don't dig in your pockets for it. Do you have anything else on you? No. Okay, go ahead and turn around real quick. I'm just going to pat you down. Is there anybody else in the house? Yeah. Yeah, my wife and my son. Winnie? My name is Winnie. Winnie. Winnie. Winnie, if you're going to be cooperative, I'll talk to you in private. Am I going to go with Is he autistic or anything? Uh he's on the spectrum. Okay. Want to keep that open. Okay. Okay. Come on over here. Let me search in this car. You good with this side? Yeah. Okay. I already gave him a pat down. If you want to check him again, that's fine. Gym shorts, so there's not a lot going on. Uh what's your wife's name? Mandy. What's your son's name? Trevor. What's that? Trevor. Trevor. Okay. Go and jump in for me. You got AC running in there? Yep. Okay. I'm going to chat with the wife real quick, just kind of let her know what's going on. And then if you'll trans I'll have you follow me or I'll follow you the other way and we'll head down to the office and put him in one of our interview rooms. Hi there. Um just let you know we have a search warrant for the house. Okay. Okay. Um and we're looking for specific items, electronic items. Okay. Is there anybody else in the house? My son is here. Okay. Is that you right there? You're Trevor? Yes. Okay. I'm Jason with the Sheriff's Office. These were just headphones. I'm going to give them to you, so Um is there anyone else in the house besides the two of you? >> No. Okay. Big dogs, small dogs? No. Two cats. Do you have any idea what this is about? No. Okay. >> no clue. Okay. Um >> possibly could have gotten Okay. what he's done. Okay. Um to let you to let you know we're recording. It's audio, video. Um I'll let Detective Moore explain what's going on. >> Okay. Um is there anything that you need to put away before we start digging into the search warrant? We don't have illegal things. We are actually really law-abiding citizens. And what we're looking for is any sort of electronics, computers, cell phones. >> we have those things, of course. Yeah, that's what we're looking for. But I mean um yeah, I mean that's what it's on your search warrant, like I mean >> Mhm. Any sort of storage devices, like thumb drives, hard drives? >> we have thumb drives in that like I mean, I've got some up in my um up in my and I've no idea what my son has. He's 20. Of course, he has his own computer and his own like I, you know Mhm. We have a communal It's actually my computer. I use mainly for school work. I have my a work laptop in here. Um he doesn't even have his work laptop right now. He uses my the home computer okay, you know, on occasions, but Do you have a tablet or anything like that? No, I mean, I also have a an older tablet, but it's primarily mine. Okay. Um are you able to point those items out to us so we're not going through every nook and cranny? Okay, that would be helpful. Is there any chance you know Jeremy's PIN for his phone? So, like I don't know what it is. Okay, fair enough. Honestly, I mean yeah, I don't know what his PIN number is. Okay, no, it's totally fine. >> desktop there. That one drawer, you can open it up. There are thumb drives. They're all my mine, pretty much. I mean Okay. Um so, I'll explain it to you the the nature of this case, the reason we have to take any desktop computer is we have to look for a very specific type of evidence and if it's found on any of that stuff, we have to take it. So, anything that he has access to >> Yes. and could potentially have saved something digital to, I need to take. So, if we later search it and find out that, you know, it is just all your school documents, usually we're able to give that back to you, okay? So, that's that's what we're doing here, but >> I'm about you having to take whatever you have to take. >> Okay. I'm letting you know where you would find Okay. You know, um I think my school laptop is on my back on the downstairs on the back bed. Is that owned by the school? It's owned by the school. Is that a uh It is I also work at the school. Okay. Um I actually um I'm and I'll tell you I went home sick this morning cuz my blood sugar had dropped. Okay. How are you feeling? How are you doing now? I'm doing all right. I came home. When detectives executed the search warrant at Jeremy Peter Williams' Longview home, they seized multiple electronic devices including a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, a desktop computer, and additional cell phones. A forensic examination of the primary phone revealed approximately 2,400 files containing use material. Investigators also discovered what they described as a large deletion event shortly before the warrant was served. On the afternoon of his arrest, Williams' phone showed a Google search "Can law enforcement get a physical address from an IP address?" The only thing I can think of is I had a Discord account that was hacked. And I went to go do something on it and it said you've been banned. Okay. And that that was that. When was that? Junish. Okay. Had it had that ever occurred prior to that? No. Okay. Um what was your Discord username? Do you remember? Something 40 Okay. Something Uh I haven't like I said I haven't been on Discord since then and I don't do that. >> Since June? Colonel Angus like the Saturday Night Live skit? Yes. Okay. You're the only person that I think's gotten that. Okay. Um Okay. What about uh Kik? Have you ever maintained a Kik account? For a little bit, but not really anything. How >> When would that have been? Before even June, I would I'd think. I haven't done anything with it. Okay. I don't like Kik. Maybe so like March or April or >> Could be. That sounds reasonable. Okay. Well, I don't want to put words in your mouth. Throw it stuff out there. Um What was your Do you remember what your Kik username was? >> Okay. No, I haven't been on that for Not even on my phone. Um Well, since you bring that up, when you were using them, what were you uh laptop, desktop? >> No, it was on the phone. I don't wouldn't I don't have a computer of my own. My wife has her computer. Okay. So, you don't you don't have any laptops or desktops that are solely yours. >> No. Um just the computer provided by the school. Yeah. Okay. Which is at school. When platforms like Discord detect potential material, they are legally required to report it. Most major tech companies use automated detection tools such as hash matching systems that scan uploaded files against databases of known illegal content. If a match is detected or if user behavior triggers moderation review, the platform generates a cyber tip. That tip is sent to the National Center for Missing and NCMEC, which operates the cyber tipline in the United States. NCMEC analysts review the report and then forward it to the appropriate law enforcement agency, often local police, state investigators, or federal authorities like the FBI based on location and severity. From there, investigators may subpoena account records, trace IP addresses, identify devices, seek search warrants. Only after that legal process moves forward, do arrests typically happen. So, clearly there's some additional concerns there related to your kind of to children that are same content that was uploaded and downloaded being discussed. Um I mean, is this something that you're willing to talk about with me or Mhm, to an extent. Okay. To an extent. How long have you been, I guess, doing this, seeking it out, collecting? It's been less than a year. Okay. So, like maybe late fall or winter? Probably February. Okay, so about the time that these reports started. So, I think my first one's probably early March-ish. Yeah. Okay. What was the What drove that? I accidentally I was talking to somebody on Reddit, I think, and they sent it to you? Yeah. Okay. Mhm. And then you just kind of were like, "Oh, yeah, this is kind of the thing." and went down the rabbit hole? Mhm, never never sought it out. Didn't go looking for it. Didn't do internet search not looking for it, any of that. It's You know, as you all know, there's folks out there that have a lot of things. Very aware. Yeah. Okay. And was it like You said you were having this conversation with somebody on Reddit. They Did they just kind of offer it up to you? How'd that conversation come about? >> It It was an RP thing, role-play sort of thing. We started talking on Reddit then. Okay. Like Yeah. Okay. And so, what did this person say, "Hey, are you interested in looking at this?" or It was It was I think it was sent without any, you know, we're doing sending clips back and forth of Okay. you know, various adult activities. Okay. Usually Reddit stuff or Okay. Sometimes some sometimes some, you know, things like that. After this interaction with this Reddit user, is this Was there like a continued back and forth conversation with the same person or did you just kind of start to stumble across other people? >> Just came across others. Okay. Tell me about some of those interactions. Same sort of thing. People posting looking for, you know, female looking for male. Mhm. Online stuff. I've never done anything IRL. Okay. Everything's always been online. And that's a very important distinction between the position I'm in. I've never done anything with a student at at a student. Never used access their information. Never done anything like that. It's all been online. Okay. And and like I said, that's that's one of my main concerns right now is your access to children and this being the context of this. >> now I'm on administrative leave because I wasn't sad that Charlie Kirk got Okay. And I I when somebody was talking about it, said, "Oh, too bad. Good riddance." Okay. And that got me. So, I'm don't have access to anything anyway. Okay. So, at the meeting you were at earlier today. Okay. Were they just now placing you on admin leave or >> no, that happened on Thursday. Okay. Same happened on Wednesday. Okay. So, just random interactions with other users. It appears like it's mostly through Discord. Is that That I use Discord for very, very little. Okay. >> Honestly. And that was that one was more, I don't know. I didn't I didn't use Discord. I had a couple of good connections that I used, but Well, hey. Obviously, there were a couple of connections. What Were those the same scenario like you found out role playing and It's both. Sometimes I'd post an ad saying you're looking for somebody to chat with. Uh Okay. Those sorts of things. And it just kind of evolves. Yeah. Okay. Um when you do receive these images, or I'll even walk that back a little bit. Um have you ever uh reciprocated to receiving the images? Like you they send you an image, so you send back one that you've gotten in the past or video? That has happened. Okay. And just to clarify, we we are talking about um CSAM related content. Okay. Do you have to This was happening on Reddit or or through Discord? Um I mean, Reddit is where I where I meet people. Okay. What about the exchanges? Yeah, Discord, I guess. Okay. But you said you've never sought this out in real life. You've never >> No, I've never created I've never produced I've No, never In this Like I said, this was a stumble across. Have you Do you Obviously, if you're reciprocating, sending them back, you have these images and videos saved somewhere. Is it on your phone? Do you have a hard drive? I don't have any on my phone anymore. You deleted them all? I don't have any. Okay, help me understand what you mean by that. Cuz you did You made an important distinction there that I do not have any images in my phone or on my computer or anything like that. Okay. Anything that I've gotten has been deleted. I don't I wasn't comfortable keeping things on there. Okay. So, you only held them for the couple of months you were doing it and purged it. >> Times going back and then, you know, you get It's like, "No, I can't have this. This is not right." And prior to this year Mhm. Um when you were interacting with people doing uh fantasy or role-play type stuff, um were you doing this regularly with adult prior to this year? Not really, no. And so This is at some point when you got into exchanging and role-playing with the adult stuff, how did you get the the underage stuff? How did that transpire? >> As As you're aware, there's a lot of folks who like to do age play sort of things. Mhm. That's not Yeah. That's kind of what I thought you were alluding to previously. >> That you know, it it it was age play. Okay. And then the the images were given to you through that without your solicitation, is that correct? >> Yeah, first. Okay. And Well, I never And it's very important. Mhm. I never said, "Hey, I'm looking for this. I want to see this. I'm seeking this." >> Mhm. It usually ended up happening in a matter of course. Okay. Um and I I think what my partner is trying to work out here is when you say in a manner of course is you're role-playing through this age scenario where I is it that you're the older person and this other person is playing >> I have been. I've gone I've gone both ways. Okay. And as this role play is going on, how does it transition from the role play to you getting or sending Yeah, as you're talking, you send images to illustrate what the scenario is that's going on. Okay. So just organically without >> Yes. without asking >> to receive or to give it just as part of the play. the change of those two things. And then but like you you were saying earlier, you you would occasionally reciprocate where you would get an image in and then you would send. And to clarify, most of these seem like they're videos versus just like still photos. If you had to guess, what was the average age range in of the juvenile or the child in the videos or was there an average age range? >> I I don't know that I could preteen to teen. Okay. So like 10 to 12, 8 to 10? >> Could be. Okay. I'm not super great at guessing ages based on Okay. During questioning, he told investigators he had never met any of the individuals in real life and claimed he did not know their true identities. Authorities also noted that his family was unaware of the online activity saying they had no knowledge of what had been happening behind the screen. Is your wife aware of these activities? No. Okay. So this it'll be a surprise to her. Yeah. Okay. Because sometimes, you know, the wives know and they No. either tolerated or encouraged it or whatever. No. Back out the way we came. Um I'm trying to get across the way. that they'd already reviewed that had been sent and received. Um those were confirmed to be depictions of engaged in explicit conduct. >> On September 16th, 2025, 49-year-old Jeremy Peter Williams, principal of Rainier Junior/Senior High School, was taken into custody. Three days later, on September 19th, 2025, prosecutors formally charged him with dealing in depictions of engaged in explicit conduct in the first degree, 10 counts of possession of depictions of engaged in explicit conduct in the first degree, and additional counts of dealing and possession in the second degree. His bail was set at $100,000, and a judge ordered that he have no contact with minors under the age of 16. As of the latest publicly available court records and news reporting, the case remains in pre-trial proceedings. No plea, verdict, or sentencing has been announced. What started as automated cyber tips in August 2025 has now become a felony case, one that will be decided in a Washington courtroom.