Several Mid-Missouri criminal cases move up to federal court

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Multiple Mid-Missouri court cases were moved up to federal court on Wednesday.

Travis Moreland, 37, of Columbia, is charged with attempted child enticement, attempted child sex trafficking and sending and receiving child sex abuse materials. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond.

Moreland is accused of trying to solicit someone who he thought was a 16-year-old for sex. A deputy posed as a teenage girl on an “escort service website” and Moreland allegedly said he was OK with the decoy’s age, previous reporting shows.

Paul Piersee, 40, of Columbia, is charged with possessing and receiving child sex abuse materials. He is also being held at the Boone County Jail without bond.

Previous reporting shows Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers allegedly found “hundreds” of videos containing child sex abuse on his electronic devices.

Hector Hernandez, 29, was charged with drug possession with the intent to distribute. He was charged after a December drug bust led to more than 56 pounds of methamphetamine being found, previous reporting shows.

Shannon Moyle, 48, is charged with drug possession with the intent to distribute from a Callaway County case. Previous reporting shows Moyle allegedly admitted to law enforcement that she had a pound of meth in a bad when she was pulled over on April 8 at a Fulton gas station.