{"id":374495,"date":"2026-08-18T09:32:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374495\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:32:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:32:40","slug":"arkansas-attorney-general-tim-griffin-announces-child-pornography-arrest-of-jacksonville-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374495\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announces child pornography arrest of Jacksonville man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. \u2013 Attorney General Tim Griffin said on Monday that an investigation by his office resulted in the arrest of a Jacksonville man for possession of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin said 43-year-old Michael Heird of Jacksonville is facing 14 counts of pandering or possession of visual or print medium depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kark.com\/crime\/rector-man-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison-on-child-pornography-charges\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tRector man sentenced to 20 years in prison on child pornography charges\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of the Attorney General\u2019s Special Investigations Division (SID) executed a search warrant on Aug. 12. The warrant came after the office received a cybertip from Google, Griffin said.<\/p>\n<p>During the search, agents found an electric device that Heird possessed, which had \u201cmultiple images of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM),\u201d Griffin said.<\/p>\n<p>Additional electronic devices were seized, and Heird was booked into the Pulaski County Regional Detention Center, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kark.com\/news\/arkansas-courts\/north-little-rock-man-pleads-guilty-to-50-counts-of-child-pornography-possession-15-year-sentence\/?ipid=promo-link-block2\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tNorth Little Rock man pleads guilty to 50 counts of child pornography possession, 15-year sentence\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a sickening crime that exploits innocent children, and anyone who engages in this horrific conduct will be identified and arrested,\u201d the attorney general said. \u201cI applaud SID\u2019s exceptional work in investigating this case, and I appreciate the Jacksonville Police Department, Homeland Security Investigations, and Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services for their assistance in this arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClose Modal<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LITTLE ROCK, Ark. \u2013 Attorney General Tim Griffin said on Monday that an investigation by his office resulted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-374495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374495","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=374495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}