Cd'A man arrested in child porn case
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A 62-year-old Coeur d’Alene man was arrested Tuesday and booked into the Kootenai County jail on child pornography charges.
William R. Carr was arrested at his home on the 2200 block of Plymouth Circle after he gave up his phone two weeks earlier to investigators from an Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) team who got a tip that he used the cellphone to download child porn, according to a police report.
Carr is being held on 10 charges of sexual exploitation of a child. Bail has been set at $100,000 for each count.
Police said they received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that child pornography had been uploaded to a Google Drive at the Plymouth Circle residence.
Police spoke with Carr, who invited officers into his home and allowed them to conduct a manual review of his cellphone, according to a report.
Carr also consented when officers asked to take the phone to a forensics laboratory for examination.
Investigators found a large quantity of child pornography photographs on the device, police said, including 228 bookmarked photographs determined to be child pornography.
“The vast majority of these photographs featured prepubescent children,” according to the report. “Some of the photographs featured prepubescent children being sexually molested.”
Police also found nude photographs of a child that was featured as the phone’s background photo, police said.
The U.S. Marshals Service, Post Falls Police Department, Coeur d’Alene Police Department and Kootenai County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office all assisted the ICAC Unit, according to a press release from the Idaho attorney general’s office.
The attorney general’s ICAC Unit works with the Idaho ICAC Task Force, a coalition of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, to investigate and prosecute individuals who use the internet to criminally exploit children.
Carr will have a preliminary court appearance within 21 days if he posts bail, and 14 days if he remains in jail.