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A Centralia man accused of uploading child sexual abuse material to the internet in March 2024 was arrested Wednesday on a $200,000 warrant for charges out of Lewis County Superior Court.
Tyler Allen Reeves, 31, was charged Jan. 15, 2025, in Lewis County Superior Court with six counts of first-degree possession of depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct following a Centralia Police Department investigation into a tip submitted by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NMEC) on June 17, 2024, according to court documents.
The NMEC report forwarded to detectives indicated that a total of nine images and videos of child sexual assault had been uploaded into the Google infrastructure on March 9, 2024, according to court documents.
NMEC reportedly identified Reeves as a possible suspect due to the phone numbers and email associated with the images.
The images reportedly depict children between the ages of 3 and 14 engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to court documents.
A Centralia detective reportedly “attempted to contact Mr. Reeves directly and through his girlfriend,” but said “both were evasive and did not agree to meet with (the detective),” according to court documents.
Court documents indicate that a Lewis County Superior Court judge approved a $200,000 warrant for Revees’ arrest the same day charges were filed in January.
He was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail at 11:22 a.m. on Wednesday, March 12, according to jail records.
While the jail roster shows Reeves’ bail as $2 million, the prosecution confirmed Thursday that the correct amount is $200,000.
He had his preliminary hearing in Lewis County Superior Court on Thursday, March 13, where Judge Paul Strophy ruled to maintain that $200,000 bail.
Arraignment is scheduled for Thursday, March 21.
Reeves was previously charged in Lewis County Superior Court in November 2023 for allegedly breaking a woman’s hand with a pipe and then threatening a man who confronted him about the assault, but the case was dismissed without prejudice on Jan. 18, 2024, following the victim’s lack of cooperation in trial preparations, according to court documents.
Dismissal without prejudice means that the case can be refiled in the same court of law at a later date.
Reeves’ criminal history includes convictions for third-degree assault and domestic violence harassment in 2022 and a fourth-degree assault conviction from 2018, according to court documents.
