{"id":312283,"date":"2026-06-18T21:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/312283\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:34:11","slug":"apollo-beach-man-faces-100-counts-of-child-sexual-abuse-material-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/312283\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollo Beach man faces 100 counts of child sexual abuse material possession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">APOLLO BEACH, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; An Apollo Beach man is facing 100 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material after a Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Michael Austin Gallo, 38, was identified by the sheriff\u2019s office after investigators said they found more than 100 files on his electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Michael Austin Gallo, 38, was identified by the sheriff's office after investigators said they...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CECHPAXBZNEVHHPKXGKFKKYCE4.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"640\" \/>Michael Austin Gallo, 38, was identified by the sheriff&#8217;s office after investigators said they found more than 100 files on his electronic devices.(Hillsborough County Sheriff)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office said its Internet Predator Unit served a search warrant June 17 at a home on Golf and Sea Boulevard in Apollo Beach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/06\/16\/judge-revokes-bond-after-investigators-say-hull-violated-release-conditions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/06\/16\/judge-revokes-bond-after-investigators-say-hull-violated-release-conditions\/\">Judge revokes bond after investigators say Hull violated release conditions<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the search, deputies said they seized 160 electronic devices containing approximately 236 terabytes of data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThose who exploit children will be identified, investigated, and held accountable,\u201d Sheriff Chad Chronister said. \u201cOur Internet Predator Unit works tirelessly to protect children and remove these offenders from our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office did not include bond information, jail status or Gallo\u2019s next court date.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"APOLLO BEACH, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; An Apollo Beach man is facing 100 counts of possession of child sexual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[130075,95256,48035,104700,130076,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-312283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-apollo-beach-arrest","tag-child-sexual-abuse-material","tag-hillsborough-county-sheriff","tag-internet-predator-unit","tag-michael-austin-gallo","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\/312283","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=312283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}