PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Deputies executed a SWAT-assisted takedown Thursday after a Port St. Lucie man allegedly used the internet as a tool to commit child sex crimes.<\/p>\n
Investigators with the St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office Criminal Investigations Division, a SWAT Team, and the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force served a search warrant at the residence of 35-year-old Marco Fernandez, in the 100 block of NE Jardain Road.<\/p>\n
Deputies say they booked Fernandez for counts of lewd and lascivious molestation involving a victim between the ages of 12 and 16, transmission of harmful material to a minor by electronic device, lewd computer solicitation of a child, and contributing to the delinquency of a child.<\/p>\n
See also: Fort Pierce man arrested in DEA-led fentanyl trafficking investigation<\/a><\/p>\n Fernandez was transported to the St. Lucie County Jail, where he is being held on a total bond of $107,500.<\/p>\n “The St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office remains committed to protecting children and aggressively pursuing individuals who exploit minors through electronic communication and other criminal acts,” the sheriff’s office said in a post to Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n Deputies urge anyone with more information to contact SLCSO detectives at (772) 462-7300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Deputies executed a SWAT-assisted takedown Thursday after a Port St. Lucie man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-264944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264944","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=264944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}