Crime & Safety
Google Tip Helps Nab Antioch Man With Child Porn: Police
Google alerted Metro Police to an Antioch man allegedly possessing hundreds of pieces of child pornography.
ANTIOCH, TN -- A tip from Google helped investigators find an Antioch man with hundreds of sexual images and videos, according to Metro Police.
In December, the search-engine giant allegedly found sexual videos of children on the Google Drive account of Luis Gerardo Paredes and alerted detectives. The information led to search warrant and detectives said they found hundreds of sexual photos and videos involving children.
Metro Police say Paredes admitted to uploading the files to his Google Drive and said that he received them using WhatsApp.
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Paredes is charged with sexual exploitation of a minor.
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