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TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that two Tampa area men have been arrested after a CyberCrime investigation determined they were creating child pornography. John Derrick Martin, 43, and David Rojas, 44, were arrested by law enforcement with the Attorney General’s CyberCrime Unit with assistance from the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.

According to investigators, Martin and Rojas drugged and encouraged two teenage girls to engage in sex acts and recorded videos of the abuse, thereby creating child pornography. Search warrants were executed at both homes where two computers, one cell phone, one camcorder, one digital camera, one external hard drive, one video camera and numerous CD’s were seized and will undergo further forensic analysis. The two victims have been identified and have been brought to safety. The case is being prosecuted by the State Attorney’s Office for the 13th Judicial Circuit.

Both Martin and Rojas were charged with two counts of promotion of child pornography, one count of lewd or lascivious conduct and one count of lewd or lascivious battery, all second-degree felonies. The agencies involved in the arrest are all members of the Central Florida Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force.

If anyone has been victimized, please contact the Tampa CyberCrime Unit Monday through Friday from 8am to 5pm at 813-287-7930 to report the abuse. To report abuse after hours, the CyberTipline is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 1-800-843-5678, and any emergency should be reported directly to local law enforcement.