Deputies said they found firearms, ammunition and electronic devices with child sexual abuse material on them in a search of the 14-year-old’s home.<\/p>\n
WIMAUMA, Fla. \u2014 An investigation into a 14-year-old boy planning to conduct a mass shooting revealed his connection to a separate child pornography investigation, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
Deputies said they received a tip that the teenager had access to weapons and was planning a mass shooting at a church near his Wimauma home.<\/p>\n
Through investigative means, detectives discovered the 14-year-old was possibly connected to an active HCSO child pornography investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After conducting a search warrant at his home, officials reported finding multiple firearms, ammunition and electronic devices with child sexual abuse material on them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The teenager is charged with:<\/p>\n
Written or electronic threat to conduct a mass shooting or act of terrorismIn-state transmission of child pornography by electronic device14 counts of solicitation or possession of child pornography, 10 or more images and content of imagesTwo counts of unlawful use of a two-way communications device <\/p>\n
\u201cThe age of the individual involved does not lessen the seriousness of these crimes,\u201d\u00a0Sheriff Chad Chronister said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cThreats of mass violence and the exploitation of children demand immediate action, and we will always move swiftly to protect lives and hold those responsible accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n
The investigation into this incident is ongoing.<\/p>\n
10 Tampa Bay News is not identifying the teenager due to his age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputies said they found firearms, ammunition and electronic devices with child sexual abuse material on them in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-143448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}