Hancock - Sheriff Craig S. DuMond announced the arrest of 27-year-old Dylan J. Brooks of Hancock. 

On Monday, April 1st, 2024, Investigators with the Delaware County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigations Division received a complaint from Delaware County Probation Department that a person supervised by the Probation Department was suspected of communicating with underage children in a sexual manner. 

On July 3rd, 2024, after a three-month long investigation, members of the Criminal Investigations Division arrested and charged 27-year-old Dylan Brooks, of Hancock New York, with one count of Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors, a Class E Felony in NYS Penal Law and one count of Endangering the Welfare of Child, a Class A Misdemeanor, in NYS Penal Law. 

Brooks is alleged to have violated his terms and conditions of probation by using an unauthorized phone and social media account to engage in conversations of a sexual nature with a 16-year-old child, proceeding to then send photos of a pornographic nature to the underage child for his own sexual gratification. 

As required by NYS Bail Reform Legislation, Brooks was released on an appearance ticket returnable to the Town of Hancock Court at a later date.