The Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s investigation began in October when agents noticed an IP address downloading a file with child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla \u2014 A 77-year-old St. Pete man was arrested for possession of child and animal sexual abuse materials, investigators announced.<\/p>\n
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says agents found an IP address downloading a file containing child sexual abuse material back in October. The location was traced to the home of Gregory Arendt.<\/p>\n
On Dec. 19, officials conducted a search warrant at Arendt\u2019s home and took multiple electronic devices that reportedly had multiple images that depicted child sexual abuse and bestiality.<\/p>\n
FDLE arrested Arendt on March 3 and took him to the Pinellas County Jail with the assistance of the Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
He is charged with four counts of possession of child sexual abuse materials and 15 counts of possession of pornographic imagery of sexual contact with an animal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Attorney General\u2019s Office of Statewide Prosecution is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s investigation began in October when agents noticed an IP address downloading a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-188761","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\/188761","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=188761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188761\/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=188761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}