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Release Number: 09-132 |
For Immediate Release |
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Public Information Office |
May 8, 2009 |
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JD Callaway: jcallawa@hcso.tampa.fl.us |
(813) 247-8060 |
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Four defendants |
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Online Child Exploitation Investigation |
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April-May 2009 |
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Hillsborough County |
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Hillsborough County Sheriff’s detectives have arrested four individuals in an ongoing online child exploitation investigation. This investigation began in April 2009. Seven search warrants so far have been executed by Sheriff’s detectives and members of the Florida Attorney General’s Predator Cyber Task Force. The computer video clips seized were being distributed and depict children from ages 1 to 12 in various stages of sexual exploitation by adults and others. Some video clips show children in bondage and bestiality.
This is an ongoing investigation.
Those arrested so far are:
Clifton Mothershed DOB 8/27/68 614 N. Gomez Avenue, Tampa Arrested 5/7/09 Charges: 100 counts of possessing child pornography
Randall Baxley DOB 9/9/68 3315 King Charles Circle, Valrico Arrested 5/7/09 Charges: 53 counts of possessing child pornography
Mark Lawton DOB 7/15/56 7407 Celeste Lane, Palm River Arrested 5/6/09 Charges: 42 counts of possessing child pornography
Adam Dinofsky DOB 4/30/65 Valrico Arrested 5/5/09 Charges: 5 counts of possessing child pornography
Mothershed
Baxley
Lawton
Dinofsky
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