Sheriff’s Dept. Announces Child Pornography Seizures in Pasadena

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department announced Thursday evening that it was able to seize evidence of the distribution of child pornography in Pasadena after it raided locations in three cities late last week.

The department’s Special Victims Bureau and Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Team served search warrants at homes in Compton, Bell Gardens, El Monte and Pasadena on Friday, November 1.

Evidence linking the people at those locations to the possession and distribution of child pornography were seized, the department said.

The investigation is on-going and no information is available as to whom the suspects were distributing the child exploitation pictures and or the identities of the children depicted in the pornography.

Prior to the search operations, the detectives of Sheriff’s Department conducted multiple investigations involving the possession and distribution of child exploitation over the internet.

The Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Team was established in 2007 to conduct child exploitation investigations which are facilitated by the use of computers and the internet.

The department reminded the public that online child exploitation or child pornography is child abuse, and that there is a real child being victimized in every image or video.

For more information, contact Sergeant Peter Hahn of Special Victims Bureau at (562) 946-7960.