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Attorney General Bill McCollum Press Release
Printer FriendlyManatee County Man Arrested for Promotion, Possession of Child Pornography
TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced a Manatee County man is in custody and will be charged with promotion and possession of child pornography. Brian David Perry, 51, was arrested by law enforcement with the Attorney General’s CyberCrime Unit after investigators discovered Perry had numerous images of child pornography in his possession. The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office, the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, the Bradenton Police Department and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement assisted in the arrest.
CyberCrime investigators located images of child pornography during a routine online investigation and traced the images back to Perry’s residence. A search warrant was executed at his Palmetto home where a computer, a thumb drive and multiple CDs were seized to undergo additional forensic analysis. An initial review of seized items revealed multiple images of child pornography, including some images of a child as young as four years old.
Perry will be booked into the Manatee County Jail and will be charged with two counts of promotion, a second-degree felony, and 20 counts of possession of child pornography, a third-degree felony which will be enhanced to a second-degree felony under the CyberCrimes Against Children Act of 2007. The agencies involved in today’s arrest are all members of the Central Florida Internet Crimes against Children Task Force.