The Athens-Clarke County Police Department (ACCPD) arrested Christopher Flick, 38, with one count of obscene internet contact with a minor on Monday according to an ACCPD press release. ACCPD received a warrant and searched his home on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The investigation by ACCPD\u2019s Special Victims Unit (SVU) began earlier this year, alongside the Dale County Sheriff\u2019s Office in Alabama. Flick\u2019s online activity was investigated regarding the possible exploitation of a minor. The investigation led to Flick\u2019s arrest, where was booked into Clarke County Jail.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The investigation is currently ongoing. Anyone with further information regarding the case can contact Detective Dara Shapland at dara.shapland@accgov.com<\/a> or 762-400-7198.\u00a0<\/p>\n The United States Secret Service and Barrow County Sheriff\u2019s Office electronic detection (ESD) K9 played a role in the investigation. The investigation is part of an ongoing effort by the ACCPD\u2019s SVU, a member of the Georgia Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force.\u00a0<\/p>\n Anyone with information about other cases of child exploitation\u00a0 is asked to contact the GBI CEACC Unit at 404-270-8870 or submit a tip via the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children CyberTipline at Cybertipline.org<\/a>. Anonymous tips can also be submitted by calling 1-800-597-8477, online at https:\/\/gbi.georgia.gov\/submit-tips-online<\/a>, or by downloading the See Something, Send Something mobile app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athens-Clarke County Police Department (ACCPD) arrested Christopher Flick, 38, with one count of obscene internet contact with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[379473,517,356926,379474,3071,26841,379475,174,9264,51132,4381,26889,5477,74,9224],"class_list":["post-907249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-accpd","tag-apple","tag-athens-clarke-county","tag-christopher-flick","tag-crime","tag-crimes","tag-dara-shapland","tag-internet","tag-justice","tag-law-order-special-victims-unit","tag-law-enforcement","tag-legal-action","tag-national-security","tag-technology","tag-uga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}