Crime & Safety
'Numerous' Computers Taken in Cobb Child Porn Operation
"No physical arrests have made at this time," Officer Mike Bowman with the Cobb County Police Department said Wednesday evening. "Charges may be forthcoming pending the completion of the computer analysis."
The Cobb County Police Department seized "numerous" computers Wednesday as part of a multi-agency operation that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman called the "largest of its kind in Georgia."
During a three-month investigation that began in January, the GBI and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force identified 98 suspects who distributed child porn over the Internet, GBI spokesman John Bankhead said this afternoon.
Those were the targets of Wednesday's operation, known as Operation Guarding Innocence.
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As of 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, there were 73 search warrants executed and 41 arrests made in connection with the operation, Bankhead said.
Six of those search warrants were executed in Cobb, Officer Mike Bowman with the Cobb County Police Department said Wednesday night.
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"As a result numerous computers were taken and submitted for forensic analysis," Bowman said in an email to Patch. "No physical arrests have made at this time. Charges may be forthcoming pending the completion of the computer analysis."
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and the Cobb County Police Department was one of 47 federal, state and local agencies that executed search warrants Wednesday against people suspected of distributing child porn over the Internet.
Other Cobb agencies that participated in Operation Guarding Innocence were the Marietta and Powder Springs Police Departments.
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