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Search Warrants Served at Homes in Multiple Cities Yield Evidence of Distribution of Child Pornography - #LASD

DATE: Friday, November 1, 2013

LOCATION: Compton, Bell Gardens, El Monte & Pasadena

UNIT: Special Victims Bureau, Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Team (SAFE)

NARRATIVE:
Detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Special Victims Bureau, Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Team (SAFE), conducted multiple investigations involving the possession and distribution of child exploitation (child pornography) over the Internet.

On Friday November 1, 2013, SAFE Team members served search warrants at homes in Compton, Bell Gardens, El Monte, and Pasadena where evidence linking the people at those locations to the possession and distribution of child pornography was seized. The investigations remain on-going as to whom the suspects were distributing the child exploitation pictures and the identities of the children depicted in the pornography.

The SAFE Team conducts child exploitation investigations which are facilitated by the use of computers and the Internet. On-line child exploitation (child pornography) is child abuse, there is a real child being victimized in every image or video. Special Victims Bureau, the Sheriff’s Department unit which investigates child abuse, has been investigating on-line exploitation since 1995 and the SAFE Team was established in 2007 in response to the rising on-line exploitation threat.

For further information contact Special Victims Burea, Sergeant Peter Hahn, at 562-946-7960.

Authored by:
Peter Hahn, Sergeant
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
Special Victims Bureau
562-946-7960

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