TAMPA, FL \u2014 A Tampa man was arrested Wednesday on 121 child porn-related charges, the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office shared in a social media post. <\/p>\n
After an investigation into child sexual abuse material being distributed online, deputies with the HCSO Internet Predator Unit served a search warrant at a Tampa home just before 8 a.m. that day. <\/p>\n
Detectives found and arrested the suspect, Ariel Brito Ponce, 31. <\/p>\n
During the search, they found hundreds of files across multiple electronic devices and messaging platforms, deputies said. <\/p>\n
Ponce was charged with 100 counts of solicitation or possession of child pornography (10 or more images and content of images) and 21 counts of in-state transmission of child pornography by electronic device. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, FL \u2014 A Tampa man was arrested Wednesday on 121 child porn-related charges, the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-216276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216276","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=216276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}