Brandon Man Charged With 100 Counts Of Possessing Child Porn: Sheriff

BRANDON, FL ? Hillsborough County sheriff's detectives have arrested a Brandon man after they say they found hundreds of images and videos of child pornography on his cellphone and other electronic devices.

On March 16, detectives received a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that someone at an address in the 600 block of Pine Forest Drive in Brandon was uploading child pornography.

Detectives went to the home and encountered John Priester, 21, who consented to a search of his phone and two other electronic devices on which detectives found the child porn videos and photos.

?We are grateful to our national and local partners who join us in the fight against the victimization of our children,? says Sheriff Chad Chronister. ?Thanks to the hard work of our detectives, they were able to locate this predator and get him out of our community.?

On Sunday, the sheriff's office obtained an arrest warrant for Priester and on Monday he was arrested and charged with one count of filming, distributing or possessing images or videos of sexual activity with an animal, one count of unlawful use of a two-way communications device, 100 counts of possession of 10 or more images and content of images of child pornography, and 100 counts of in-state transmission of child pornography by electronic device.