Hialeah Gardens man had ‘hundreds’ of child sex abuse videos; some victims under 4

(*4*)HIALEAH GARDENS, Fla. – An investigation involving the U.S. Secret Service led detectives to find “hundreds” of child sexual abuse movies on an internet account related to a Hialeah Gardens man, in keeping with an arrest file. Miami-Dade police mentioned some of the victims proven within the clips had been “under the age of 4.”

(*4*)Marco Puente, 55, is now going through 20 prison fees associated with the ownership and promotion of child sexual abuse subject matter.

(*4*)The arrest file states that Secret Service brokers served a warrant Tuesday at Puente’s Hialeah office and contacted Miami-Dade police. It got here after government issued a possible reason message after discovering that he “was in control of a Google account reported for uploading child sexual abuse material,” police mentioned.

(*4*)Authorities mentioned in an interview on the Hialeah Gardens Police Department, Puente confessed to possessing the movies and consented to a seek of his non-public software. Additionally, government mentioned they discovered masses of movies on his Telegram account.

(*4*)They mentioned Puente had used the chat utility to proportion “at least” 50 child sexual abuse movies.

(*4*)Police described a portion of Puente’s alleged assortment of clips in graphic element; they depicted younger girls and boys being raped or in a different way sexually abused via each women and men, the arrest file states.

(*4*)Puente was once taken to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, the place he was once being hung on a $43,500 bond as of Wednesday afternoon.