{"id":44579,"date":"2025-11-13T01:27:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/44579\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T01:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:27:32","slug":"indian-rocks-beach-man-faces-child-pornography-charges-crime-crashes-and-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/44579\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Rocks Beach man faces child pornography charges | Crime, Crashes and Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIAN ROCKS BEACH \u2014 Pinellas County sheriff&#8217;s detectives arrested an Indian Rocks Beach man Nov. 5 on charges of possessing child pornography, according to the Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Gary J. Ross, 57, was taken into custody and booked into the Pinellas County Jail on 21 counts of possession of child pornography, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation began after detectives with the Crimes Against Children Unit received information that child pornography was being accessed and shared online, according to the Sheriff&#8217;s Office. Detectives identified Ross as a suspect through investigative techniques.<\/p>\n<p>The images depicted children between 2 and 14 years old, according to the Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing, deputies said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIAN ROCKS BEACH \u2014 Pinellas County sheriff&#8217;s detectives arrested an Indian Rocks Beach man Nov. 5 on charges&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[27392,596,3152,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-44579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-indian-rocks-beach","9":"tag-pinellas-county","10":"tag-pinellas-county-sheriff","11":"tag-st-pete","12":"tag-st-pete-headlines","13":"tag-st-pete-news","14":"tag-st-petersburg","15":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","16":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44579","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=44579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}