June 23, 2009
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Orange County Man Arrested for Possession of Child Pornography
TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced an Orange County man is in custody and will be charged with possession of child pornography. Richard A. Brown, 29, was arrested by law enforcement with the Attorney General’s CyberCrime Unit after investigators discovered Brown had multiple images of child pornography in his possession. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office and Orlando Police Department assisted with the arrest.
CyberCrime investigators located images of child pornography during a routine investigation and traced the images back to Brown’s computer. A search warrant was executed at his Orlando home where a computer was seized and will undergo forensic analysis. An initial review of his computers revealed multiple images of child pornography and Brown admitted he possessed the images during the investigation. Some of the images were of children as young as three years old.
Brown will be booked into the Orange County Jail and will be charged with ten counts of possession of child pornography, a third-degree felony which will be enhanced to a second-degree felony under the CyberCrimes Against Children Act of 2007.