{"id":153956,"date":"2026-02-13T04:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153956\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T04:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:03:08","slug":"st-pete-man-arrested-and-charged-for-alleged-possession-transmission-of-child-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153956\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete man arrested and charged for alleged possession, transmission of child porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The images were of children between the ages of four and six years old,&#8221; the St. Petersburg Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla \u2014 A man in St. Pete was arrested by local police, as officers say he has been charged with possession and transmission of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/regional\/florida\/support-programs-victims-child-abuse-human-trafficking\/67-5eaed7cc-9c07-494a-be26-17a53782e06e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">child pornography<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Petersburg Police Department said Thursday that Marlon Perez, 30, was arrested and is now facing charges.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives from the Cyber Investigations Unit say they began their investigation when they got information about child pornography being accessed and shared online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through various investigative techniques, detectives identified the suspect as 30-year-old Marlon Perez,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The images were of children between the ages of four and six years old,&#8221; the detectives said.<\/p>\n<p>Perez was taken to the Pinellas County Jail after the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation is still ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The images were of children between the ages of four and six years old,&#8221; the St. Petersburg Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-153956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153956","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=153956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}