{"id":188866,"date":"2026-03-12T16:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188866\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T16:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:14:11","slug":"77-year-old-st-pete-man-arrested-for-posession-of-child-animal-sexual-abuse-materials-fdle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188866\/","title":{"rendered":"77-year-old St. Pete man arrested for posession of child, animal sexual abuse materials: FDLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 77-year-old St. Pete man was arrested for possession of child and animal sexual abuse materials, investigators announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Attorney General\u2019s Office of Statewide Prosecution is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 77-year-old St. Pete man was arrested for possession of child and animal sexual abuse materials, investigators announced.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[14676,4860,88439,2026,11486,4448,12497,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-188866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-child-sexual-abuse","tag-florida-department-of-law-enforcement","tag-gregory-arendt","tag-investigators","tag-pinellas-county-jail","tag-pinellas-county-sheriffs-office","tag-sexual-abuse","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\/188866","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=188866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}