Darrin Bell, a 49-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and UC Berkeley alumnus, was arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography. The arrest followed a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and an investigation by the Sacramento Valley Internet Crimes Against Children task force. Authorities recovered evidence, including AI-generated material, linked to child pornography from Bell's home.
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell, photographed in Feb. 2024, was arrested Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, by Sacramento County sheriff’s investigators on suspicion of possessing child pornography. A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who was educated at UC Berkeley has been arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography, authorities said.
He launched the strip, “Candorville,” into newspapers in 2003 via, the Washington Post Writers Group, which began syndicating his editorial cartoons in 2013. He created “Rudy Park” in 1997 and self-syndicated it into technology magazines. His cartoons now run through King Features Syndicate.
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