Two Southeast Texas men arrested for child pornography

Darrin Dustin Maxwell, 29, of Silsbee, and Colton Keith Lebouff, 21, of Bridge City, were both taken into custody by Southeast Texas law enforcement and Texas Office of the Attorney General’s Child Exploitation Unit and charged with possessing child pornography. | Photos: Hardin County Sheriff’s Office and Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

Content note: mention of child sexual abuse

This article was originally published in The Examiner on Dec. 7, 2017.

By Eleanor Skelton
Staff Writer 

Two Southeast Texas men were arrested by multiple law enforcement agencies for possession of child pornography last week, according to The Texas Attorney General’s office.

Darrin Dustin Maxwell, 29, of Silsbee was taken into custody Nov. 29 by the Office of the Attorney General’s Child Exploitation Unit investigators.

The Hardin County Sheriff’s Office suspected Maxwell of uploading child pornography to an online photo storage account, The Texas Attorney General’s Office said in a news release. In addition to facing two counts of possession of child pornography, Maxwell was also charged with possession of a controlled substance by Hardin County Sheriff’s Office investigators.

Maxwell was still being held in the Hardin County Jail as of Dec. 6, on bonds totaling $45,000, according to jail staff.

Colton Keith Lebouff, 21, of Bridge City was arrested Nov. 30 by the Office of the Attorney General’s Child Exploitation Unit investigators.

When Lebouff was questioned, Lebouff admitted to possessing child pornography, according to the probable cause affidavit for his arrest. Several digital storage devices were seized by authorities during a search of his home.

Lebouff was charged with four counts of possession of child pornography on his cellphone. His other digital storage devices are being examined by the Digital
Forensics Unit of the attorney general’s office.

The Bridge City Police Department assisted the Attorney General’s office in
the arrest, Bridge City Police Sergeant Richard Teague told The Examiner.

Lebouff was still being held in the jail on a bond of $25,000 for each charge as of Dec. 6, Orange County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigator Janois Grizzaffi said.