{"id":409102,"date":"2026-09-24T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409102\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:30:12","slug":"tampa-man-charged-with-distributing-child-pornography-doj-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409102\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa man charged with distributing child pornography, DOJ says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OCALA, Fla. \u2014 The DOJ announced that a 21-year-old man from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/local\/hillsboroughcounty\/tampa-strip-clubs-outreach\/67-65d0fff3-0029-4c14-a029-ab4ff2c25b03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Tampa<\/a> has been charged with distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney Greg Kehoe announced the charges against Aspen Cartwright Wednesday. If convicted, Cartwright faces up to 20 years in federal prison.<\/p>\n<p>Kehoe said in the announcement that, based on court records, Cartwright allegedly engaged in a sexually explicit conversation in May of 2025 with someone he believed was a 13-year-old girl. Then, on May 22 of that year, he is accused of having distributed an image of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The minor was actually an undercover agent from Homeland Security Investigations,&#8221; Kehoe said in the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Janette Swartzberg will prosecute the case, the DOJ said, adding that HSI and the Marion County Sheriff&#8217;s Office investigated it.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ also noted that an indictment is a formal charge, adding that &#8220;every defendant is presumed innocent unless, and until, proven guilty.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OCALA, Fla. \u2014 The DOJ announced that a 21-year-old man from Tampa has been charged with distribution of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-409102","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\/409102","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=409102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}