TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) – Tampa police have arrested a 20-year-old man accused of the online exploitation of children, police said.
Rhett Vinson was arrested and charged with 10 counts of solicitation or possession of child sexual abuse material. He was taken to the Orient Road Jail.
Detectives with the Tampa Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children unit received a cyber-tip in August from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, police said.
Investigators later executed a court-authorized search warrant at a home in the 1300 block of Hiawatha Street, where they seized the suspect’s cellphone as evidence, police said.
The Tampa Police Department urges anyone who is a victim of child sexual abuse, or who knows someone who is, to contact police.
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