{"id":154015,"date":"2026-02-13T05:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/154015\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T05:04:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:04:45","slug":"st-pete-man-arrested-and-charged-for-alleged-possession-transmission-of-child-porn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/154015\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete man arrested and charged for alleged possession, transmission of child porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:child pornography;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">child pornography<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The St. Petersburg Police Department said Thursday that Marlon Perez, 30, was arrested and is now facing charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Through various investigative techniques, detectives identified the suspect as 30-year-old Marlon Perez,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The images were of children between the ages of four and six years old,&#8221; the detectives said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Perez was taken to the Pinellas County Jail after the arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An investigation is still ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in St. Pete was arrested by local police, as officers say he has been charged with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[74288,74289,59666,74287,202,204,203,199,201,200,55612,37697],"class_list":["post-154015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-cyber-investigations-unit","tag-investigative-techniques","tag-local-police","tag-marlon-perez","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-st-petersburg-police-department","tag-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154015","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=154015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}