Huntley officer reassigned after 2022 tip on school bus driver; police didn’t arrest him for child sex abuse material for years

A Huntley police officer has been reassigned after the department received a cybertip linked to a school bus driver in 2022 but did not arrest him on child sexual abuse material charges until last month. Jon M. Roth, 43, of Huntley, a Huntley Community School District 158 school bus driver who parents say drove preschool routes, was charged with 10 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material depicting a victim under 13 years old, a Class 2 felony. The Huntley Police Department said in a statement Tuesday that it received a previous cybertip linked to Roth in 2022. Roth was not arrested until years later, on October 20. Prosecutors said the investigation that led to Roth’s arrest began when the Huntley Police Department received another cybertip in August from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). That tip originated from Google, which had flagged files containing suspected child sexual abuse material associated with one of its accounts.

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