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Roy "Trey" Farmer, 53, was arrested and charged Friday, March 22 with possession of child sexual abuse material, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office.
Farmer is a 1993 graduate of Princeton University and has been involved with several university-related groups, currently serving as president of both the Princeton University Glee Club Foundation and Queer Princeton Alumni, according to multiple online bios and publications.
Farmer currently sits on the board of the New York Philharmonic and served as president of the Harvard Glee Club. He sang with the Yale and Harvard Glee Clubs, apparently while earning his master's degrees, online bios and publications show.
According to his bio on the QPA website, Farmer has previously served on the boards of the Classic Chamber Concerts, Istanbul State Opera and Ballet, London Symphony Orchestra, Naples Music Club, Opera Naples, the and the StayInMay Festival.
Farmer is extremely well-educated, holding an AB in classical philosophy from Princeton; an M.A.R/M.Phil from Yale University, and a master's in education degree from Harvard University, the QPA website says.
Farmer is an entrepreneur who runs companies in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East, according to online bios.
In 2022, Farmer was featured in an article that ran in the Princeton Alumni Spotlight. The article called him a "piano prodigy" and Farmer spoke about the many ways Princeton has informed his life.
In January 2024, detectives with the prosecutor’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit received information from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that an individual in Mercer County uploaded an item that portrayed child sexual abuse material. An investigation was initiated, and Roy D. Farmer was identified as a subject, the prosecutor's office said.
On Friday, March 22, members of the Mercer County Tactical Response Team, with assistance from the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office and Homeland Security Investigations Trenton, executed a search warrant at an apartment in Princeton owned by Farmer, where detectives seized multiple items of evidentiary value, the prosecutor's office said.
Farmer was arrested without incident, and lodged in the Mercer County Jail awaiting a detention hearing on Wednesday, March 27, the prosecutor's office said.
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