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DANIA BEACH, Fla. – It was once 6 a.m., on Thursday. An army-like unit of the Broward Sheriff’s Office entered a two-bedroom condominium in Dania Beach to arrest Anthony Cruz, a suspect in a child sexual exploitation case.
There had been two others with Cruz, 40, in the Danians complex condominium close to East Dania Beach Boulevard and Southeast Fifth Avenue — and a couple of mile from an basic faculty.
Deputies had a seek warrant and located Cruz’s Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphone on his mattress with more than 10 photographs of child sex abuse sufferers as younger as 4 years outdated, in step with the BSO arrest record.
“I also located additional files of child pornography in a search warrant return for the defendant’s Kik account,” BSO Detective Christopher DePelisi wrote in the record concerning the Kik immediate messaging cellular app,
The child sex abuse photographs related to Cruz’s Kik account had been of each girls and boys between the ages of five and 13 years outdated, DePelisi reported, in step with the arrest record.
MediaLab.AI, a California-based virtual media corporate, alerted the National Center For Missing And Exploited Children concerning the “hwd28th” Kik account registered underneath the “HollywoodHug360@aol.com” email. The heart notified regulation enforcement.
“Through legal process and additional intelligence, I was able to identify and locate the defendant,” DePelisi wrote in his record.
BSO correctional deputies booked Cruz on Thursday on the primary prison in Fort Lauderdale and he seemed in bond court docket on Friday. He is going through 11 third-degree fees: 10 counts of possess/keep an eye on/view depiction child sex behavior, and one rely of collect, input laptop pornography re minor.
A pass judgement on set his bond at $110,000, together with $10,000 for each and every rate.
Detectives requested any person with information about this or different circumstances to name Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.
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