Darrin Bell, author of “Candorville” and “Ruby Park,” began his career as a staffer on the Daily Californian at UC Berkeley.

Darrin Bell, a Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist whose political illustrations frequently appear in The Washington Post, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion

A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist with Bay Area ties has been arrested in Sacramento County on suspicion of child pornography.

Darrin Bell, 49, who won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, was arrested Wednesday morning at his south Sacramento home by Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office investigators. Deputies had served a search warrant against Bell following an investigation by the Sacramento Valley Internet Crimes Against Children Detectives task force.

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell, whose work appeared in the Washington Post and other newspapers, has been arrested for child pornography. Sacramento Valley Internet Crimes Against Children Detectives (ICAC) conducted an investigation stemming from a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) related to someone uploading Child Sex Abuse Material (CSAM),