A 46-year-old Farmington man has been charged with three third-degree felonies involving alleged online child sexual exploitation and solicitation, according to a criminal complaint and arrest-warrant affidavit in San Juan County Magistrate Court.
Adam K. Boognl, 46, is charged with sexual exploitation of children by distribution, criminal solicitation to commit sexual exploitation of children by manufacturing, and criminal solicitation to commit criminal sexual contact of a minor in the second degree involving a child under 13.
All charges are allegations based on court records, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.
Public records reviewed by San Juan Pulse identify Boognl’s wife as Jennifer Breakell, who is currently listed by the City of Farmington as city attorney. Other public records identify Breakell under the Boognl surname and connect her publicly with Adam Boognl.
Breakell is not charged in the case. The criminal complaint and arrest-warrant affidavit reviewed by San Juan Pulse do not allege that she participated in or knew about the conduct alleged by investigators, and the records do not identify the City of Farmington or its Legal Department as participants in the investigation.
According to the arrest-warrant affidavit, a San Juan County Sheriff’s Office detective was contacted Sept. 10 by a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations in Albuquerque regarding an investigation that had originated with HSI in Detroit.
The affidavit states an HSI agent in Detroit had been conducting undercover online activity while portraying himself as the father of a young girl. Investigators reported that on Aug. 18, the agent received a private message through the Kik messaging platform from an account whose profile described its user as a 46-year-old man.
According to the affidavit, the conversation later moved to another messaging platform. Investigators allege the user eventually sent the undercover agent a video that authorities identified as child sexual abuse material.
The criminal complaint alleges that Boognl engaged online on Aug. 18 and distributed child sexual abuse material to the HSI agent through the Zangi messaging platform.
According to the affidavit, investigators obtained account and internet subscriber information while attempting to identify the person behind the online accounts. The detective reported that an internet address associated with one of the accounts was assigned to Boognl at a Farmington residence.
The affidavit also states investigators reviewed information connected to reports made to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and records associated with additional online accounts. Investigators alleged that email, account and subscriber information helped connect online accounts to Boognl.
According to the affidavit, search warrants were executed Sept. 11 for records from Kik, Google, T-Mobile and Microsoft. The detective reported receiving returns from Kik and T-Mobile and wrote that media associated with several accounts contained photographs that he believed confirmed Boognl’s identity.
The two solicitation charges stem from alleged online communications in April 2025, according to the complaint and affidavit.
According to the affidavit, investigators reviewed communications in which an account they associated with Boognl allegedly discussed sexual conduct involving another user’s minor child. The complaint alleges that on or about April 8, Boognl solicited another person to involve a child under 13 in conduct that formed the basis for the criminal sexual contact solicitation charge.
The complaint also alleges Boognl solicited the creation of child sexual abuse material during the April 8 interaction. According to the affidavit, investigators reviewed a recording connected to those communications and reported that they believed it met the statutory definition of child sexual abuse material.
CHARGES FILED
- Sexual exploitation of children (distribution) — third-degree felony
- Criminal solicitation to commit sexual exploitation of children (manufacturing) — third-degree felony
- Criminal solicitation to commit criminal sexual contact of a minor in the second degree, child under 13 — third-degree felony
CASE STATUS
The arrest warrant is dated Sept. 16, and the criminal complaint and arrest-warrant affidavit are dated or file-stamped Sept. 17 in San Juan County Magistrate Court under case number M-147-FR-2026-00437.
The warrant return states Boognl was arrested and served with the warrant on Sept. 17. As of Sept. 18, the San Juan County Adult Detention Center’s public detainee inquiry listed Boognl as in custody.
A Public Safety Assessment dated Sept. 18 lists an arrest date of Sept. 18. The supplied records do not explain the one-day discrepancy between the assessment and the warrant return.
A Sept. 18 Public Safety Assessment placed Boognl in the presumptive ROR category. The PSA is a pretrial risk-assessment tool and is not itself a judicial release order. The records reviewed by San Juan Pulse do not include a subsequent court order establishing whether he will remain detained or be released.
The supplied court records did not indicate whether Boognl has retained legal counsel.
SOURCE
According to the criminal complaint, arrest-warrant affidavit, warrant return and Public Safety Assessment contained in the supplied court records for State of New Mexico v. Adam K. Boognl, case number M-147-FR-2026-00437, in San Juan County Magistrate Court.
Additional public-record verification reviewed by San Juan Pulse included the City of Farmington’s current Legal Department information, public records connecting Jennifer Breakell and Adam Boognl, and the San Juan County Adult Detention Center’s public detainee inquiry.
LEGAL DISCLAIMER
All charges are allegations based on court records, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law. Jennifer Breakell is not charged in this case, and the records reviewed by San Juan Pulse do not allege that she participated in or knew about the conduct alleged by investigators.