MONROE COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a substitute teacher in Missouri for child sex crimes.
Twenty-seven-year-old Ty Michael Gramley of Columbia was arrested just after 1p.m. Thursday in Randolph County, according to a media release from the sheriff’s department.
The investigation lasted several weeks in connection with a complaint that Gramley was exchanging pornographic text messages, photographs, and videos with a minor student from an area school via social media.
Gramley was housed in the Monroe County Jail after being served with an arrest warrant for Possession of Child Pornography (felony) and two counts of furnishing pornographic material to a minor (misdemeanor).
He is scheduled to be arraigned next week.
A Monroe County deputy wrote in a probable cause statement that a student said she had been sending and receiving sexually explicit text messages, photos and videos with Gramley through Facebook Messenger. The student said she met Gramley while he was working as a substitute teacher in the Madison C-3 school district.
Superintendent Shane Stocks said Gramley wasn’t an employee and worked for a contractor that provides substitutes.