14 arrested for child porn charges in Polk County.

Sheriff Grady Judd
(Picture from Polk Sheriff's Office web site)


The Sheriff warned those not arrested this time that they are coming after them as well.

The Sheriff made that statement after they arrested a total of 14 people for child porn charges.

In the news release, we learned that more than 40,000 pictures and movies were seized.

The sheriff’s office also seized the computers used. The statement also said that some of the images were of children two years old.

Now what I find really sad is the fact that someone actually took pictures and videos of children two years old. What the F%&( ???

Is this something that parents are doing to make money? Regardless of the reason for doing this, I hope they can track the pictures and videos and arrest the parents responsible for allowing this to happen to their child.

The Sheriff also said they were able to get a lot of information about people outside of Polk County and that information has been passed along to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and hopefully they can arrest a lot more for these crimes.

This is what’s makes me sick about the Nebraska court ruling. The defense attorney thinks its fun and games to make an 11 year old that was sexually assaulted when she was 7 years old to appear in front of her attacker.

We, defense attorneys included, have to protect the children. Not set sexual predators free and get them back out on the street to roam among the children.

Anyway back to this case. Sorry that case makes me sick because the Supreme Court said in their opinion they recognize the need to protect children, yet they over turn a conviction because a trial judge allowed the child protection.

It should be interesting to see how many more people are arrested as a result of this investigation.

Well I said when I done the post on the prostitution arrest in Polk, I don’t know what would be worse. To actually be arrested or have your name posted all over the internet to let people know you have been arrested for child porn.

So with that in mind, here is the list of people arrested.

Jon Boyd, 39, of Winter Haven, 40 counts possession and one count promotion, both second-degree felonies.

Jason Copeland, 28, of Lakeland, 50 counts possession and one count promotion.

William Dukes, 54, of Davenport, 50 counts possession and one count promotion.

Paul Fazio, 68, of Davenport, 50 counts possession and one count promotion.

Edward Finneran, 63, of Lakeland, 50 counts possession.

Calvin Fritch, 49, of Witner Haven, 50 counts possession and one count promotion.

Andrew Hilson, 65, of Davenport, 50 counts possession.

Justin Hlibechuk, 22, of Lakeland, 13 counts possession.

Craig Johnston, 63, of Auburndale, 10 counts possession.

John Mihalek, 54, of Lakeland, 50 counts possession.

Allan Roth, 77, of Lakeland, 50 counts possession.

Forrest Silas, 48, of Lakeland, two counts possession and one count promotion.

Frank Unum, 66, of Lakeland, 50 counts possession and one count promotion.

James White, 26, of Lakeland, one count possession and one count promotion.

And just like the prostitution arrest, the ages range from 20’s to 70’s.

Just makes one wonder if the 70 year old have been doing this stuff since they were 20 and just now getting caught.

I just think it’s amazing that for both stings the ages were of such a wide range.

True Crime Cases would like to Salute Sheriff Grady Judd and his department for yet another awesome job getting the sexual predators off the street.