#Gigatribe partially found download#

'Those who trade in child pornography inflict great harm on the most vulnerable in our society by re-victimizing the children in the existing pornography as well as by fueling a market that requires new child victims,' said U.S. When a search was executed at Beaver's home, authorities allegedly found more than 6,000 images and more than 400 videos of child pornography on his computer. A federal grand jury previously indicted Beaver and charged him with one count of advertising child pornography, two counts of distributing child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography. Gerald Patrick Beaver, 53, of Cerritos, was also arrested Tuesday based on law enforcement operations in New Zealand and Oklahoma in which undercover officers allegedly observed him offering to distribute child pornography over the Internet using the Gigatribe file-sharing program.

#Gigatribe partially found download#

At the time of the alleged offenses in 2013, Gutierrez was an engineer with the Los Angeles City Fire Department and investigators believe he used Internet connections at three different fire stations to download the child pornography found on his computer. Those arrested Tuesday include Luis Gutierrez, 49, of Chino, who was previously indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of receiving child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography obtained through the use of the Ares file-sharing program. Over the past three years, Operation Wide Net has led to more than 80 defendants being prosecuted for child pornography offenses and the execution of over 100 federal and state search warrants in the Los Angeles area.

The Long Beach Police Department and the California Highway Patrol also assisted in Tuesday's operation. Postal Inspection Service, who work in conjunction with local law enforcement partners, including the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the U.S. The ICAC includes special agents from the FBI, U.S. The arrests, resulting from eight federal indictments and three cases filed by local prosecutors, are part of Operation 'Wide Net,' a probe by the Los Angeles Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force. LOS ANGELES вЂ“ Concluding a three-year investigation, authorities arrested 11 defendants Tuesday who are accused of using peer-to-peer file-sharing programs to receive and possess вЂ“ and, in some cases, distribute вЂ“ child pornography.