ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. – A man’s Snapchat records led to his arrest and felony charges in connection with a months-long child pornography investigation in St. Charles County.

The St. Charles Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Nico E. Baskin, 22, of St. Charles, with two counts of possession of child pornography. Baskin was formally charged on March 5. He remains jailed on a $200,000 cash-only bond. He’ll be arraigned on July 8.

According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, a St. Charles County officer was assigned in January 2025 to investigate a Cybertip, originally submitted from groupchat platform Discord to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The tip included eight images classified as child pornography.

In February 2025, a second Cybertip, believed to be connected to the initial case, was assigned to the St. Charles County Police Department. That tip included 29 images classified as child pornography, all of which were reported as being saved to and uploaded from a user’s Snapchat Memories, per court documents.

Around that time, officers obtained a search warrant for an iCloud email address believed to be linked to the suspect. While no images or videos were recovered, account information provided the suspect’s name, phone numbers, and additional email addresses, along with emails from Discord and Snapchat indicating rule violations and account suspensions, according to court documents.

Baskin was identified as a suspect some time later. Investigators found multiple social media accounts under his name, including profile images that matched descriptions of the individual seen in Cybertip photos.

Investigators learned Baskin had previously been on the sex offender registry in St. Charles County. Evidence indicated he was living at a hotel with the same address linked to the Spectrum Business IP address in the Cybertips.

Baskin was then arrested on March 4. Police said Baskin claimed he had no phone number, email address, or social media accounts, but confirmed he had been living in a St. Charles hotel, per court documents.

Police later interviewed a family member who said Baskin lived at an extended stay hotel in St. Charles for nearly six years.

According to court documents, Baskin also had a prior child sexual exploitation charge in Kansas, and is listed on the registered sex offender registry in both St. Charles and St. Louis counties.