{"id":14949,"date":"2025-10-22T01:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14949\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T01:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:39:07","slug":"deputies-arrest-man-in-pinellas-park-for-child-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14949\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputies arrest man in Pinellas Park for child porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Through various investigative techniques, detectives identified the suspect,&#8221; the Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>PINELLAS PARK, Fla. \u2014 An investigation by detectives led to the arrest of a man in Pinellas Park for possession and distribution of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Conroy-Hourigan, 26, from Largo, was booked by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/section\/pinellascounty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Pinellas County<\/a> Sheriff&#8217;s Office into the Pinellas County Jail Tuesday evening, records show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Detectives assigned to the Crimes Against Children Unit&#8221; led the arrest, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (PCSO).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through various investigative techniques, detectives identified the suspect,&#8221; deputies said. &#8220;According to detectives, the images were of children between the ages of eight and twelve years old.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Investigators began their inquiries after they received information about child pornography being accessed and shared online, according to PCSO.<\/p>\n<p>Conroy-Hourigan has been charged with seven counts of possession of child pornography and seven more for transmission, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p>This is still an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Through various investigative techniques, detectives identified the suspect,&#8221; the Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said. PINELLAS PARK, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-14949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949","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=14949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}