{"id":55291,"date":"2026-04-24T22:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/55291\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T22:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:15:11","slug":"new-bern-man-charged-with-three-counts-sexual-exploitation-of-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/55291\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bern Man Charged with Three Counts Sexual Exploitation of Minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> New Bern Police have charged 28 year old Stefan Ajay Romeo of Fort Totten Dr with three counts of Felony Exploitation of a Minor after executing a search warrant early Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to charging documents Romeo is alleged to have transmitted sexually graphic videos showing children being sexually assaulted. Romeo is alleged to have transmitted three videos one with a Child under the age of 3, on with a child under the age of 5, and another with a child under the age of 10.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newbernlive.org\/chargesromero.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd;  none; 0px;  0px; font-family: Oswald; font-size: 12px;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ FULL CHARGING DOCUMENT HERE<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The investigation was conducted by detectives assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and was initiated following a complaint received by law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Romeo was placed in the Craven County Jail but was later released on a $120,000 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Bern Police have charged 28 year old Stefan Ajay Romeo of Fort Totten Dr with three counts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,1655,1654,107,1202],"class_list":["post-55291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-bern","tag-crime","tag-eastern-nc","tag-new-bern","tag-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116461995465228957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}