BATON ROUGE, LA – Attorney General Jeff Landry’s Cyber Crime Unit has arrested a registered sex offender in Beauregard Parish on child exploitation charges.

“Child pornography is a dreadful crime that inflicts lifelong damage to the victims,” said General Landry. “So I applaud my office and our law enforcement partners for finding and arresting the despicable people who possess, distribute, and produce these horrific sexual abuse images and videos.”

Darrell Cooley, 50 of DeRidder, was arrested and charged with four counts of Pornography Involving Juveniles Under the Age of Thirteen (possession).

The arrest was a result of a joint investigation with the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation, Sulphur Police Department, Homeland Security Investigations, and Beauregard Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Cooley was booked into Beauregard Parish Jail.