A 60-year-old resident of Logroño has been arrested, within the framework of ‘Operation VIPER’, for the crime of possession of material with child pornography. The arrest was carried out by the Technological Crimes Group of the Judicial Police of the Police Headquarters of La Rioja, in collaboration with Group III for the Protection of Minors of the Central Cybercrime Unit.
In the search carried out at his home, the agents located abundant child pornography on various devices, as well as numerous technical evidence, computers and hard drives that confirmed the facts.
The investigation began as a consequence of the active police cyber patrolling of the Internet. The illegal activity was detected by a foreign entity in the fight against the sexual exploitation of minors on the Internet after detecting in a ‘Peer to Peer’ file-sharing network system the file sharing with child sexual abuse content.
These types of systems are currently one of the most widely used Internet services for exchanging, distributing and downloading files of this type.
After the police investigation, the agents tracked down the person responsible for distributing the content in a house located in Logroño, where only the author resided. For this reason, a house search was carried out, locating thousands of child pornography files in the devices used by the detainee, as well as technical evidence that showed that he was the author of a crime of distribution of child pornography.
In addition, various computer equipment was seized, including two computers and various hard drives and flash drives where the detainee stored child pornographic content, for subsequent analysis and study. The detainee has no criminal record.
The National Police reminds citizens of the importance of not sharing or saving this type of sexual images and videos featuring minors, since they would be committing a crime. To do this, there is the possibility of reporting the content by email denuncias pornografia.infantil@policia.es.
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