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TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced a Pinellas County man has been taken into custody and will be charged with possession of child pornography. Christopher Allan Meixner, 43, was arrested by law enforcement with the Attorney General’s CyberCrime Unit after investigators discovered Meixner had multiple images of child pornography in his possession. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) assisted with the arrest.

CyberCrime investigators located images of child pornography during a routine investigation and traced the images back to Meixner’s computer. A search warrant was executed at his Seminole home where one desktop, one laptop and a cell phone were seized. The items removed from the home will undergo forensic analysis to identify any additional images of child pornography. An initial review of his computers revealed multiple images of child pornography including some of children as young as three years old.

Meixner will be booked into the Pinellas County Jail and will be charged with 20 counts of possession of child pornography, a third-degree felony enhanced to a second-degree felony under the CyberCrimes Against Children Act of 2007. The agencies involved are members of the Central Florida Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force.

CyberCrime tips can be reported to the National Center for Missing Children's CyberTipline at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678) or online at http://www.cybertipline.com. ICE also encourages the public to report suspected child predators and any suspicious activity through its toll-free hotline at 1-866-DHS-2ICE. This hotline is staffed around the clock by investigators.