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Wednesday February 17, 2010
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Permit No. 14
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Mike Moore - Photojournalist
Squawk Box
With Mike Moore
Just Don't
Do It!
Here’s a warning to people who
produce, download, copy, store, transport,
or otherwise possess digital images of mi-
nors in lewd or lascivious depictions and
other internet kiddie-porn outlaws: there a
new Rimage in town and the Citrus Coun-
ty Sheriff’s Department (CCSO) is using
it to prosecute YOU.
Chris Cornell, a detective work-
ing in the CCSO Internet Crimes Against
Children (ICAC) unit explains the new
fangled, high-tech device to our gathered
group of reporters; “the Rimage is a ro-
botic CD reproducer with forensics ca-
pabilities’, he says, that can find illegal
image files in any format, even if they are
encrypted or the CD is scratched’ he adds,
‘this machine can process the hundreds of
CDs that we might seize during an arrest
and it will analyze every last one them,
without tiring”.
Track by track, the Rimage sorts
through digital materials and it’s patented
software gives detectives the evidence
they need to try pedophiles in court. Its
accuracy and speed cuts down on the time
Citrus County Sheriff’s Office Detective Chris Cornell sits in front of mountains of bagged evidence demonstrating new technology for fighting
needed by each detective to sift through
internet child pornography. The machine may look like a stereo player but in fact it sorts and catalogs files and file formats of every description
the hundreds of files that may be associ-
aiding in the prosecution of pedophiles. For more on this story, read this week's Squawk Box. Photo by Mike Moore
Father & son
Citrus Springs man arrested on
ated with a pornography case. Well worth
its price of approximately $11,000 dollars,
resign from Levy
the CCSO was given the Rimage through
drug trafficking charges
a grant. Working together with the Central
Florida ICAC Task Force, detectives like
SO, Daughter
Officer Cornell are tightening the noose
Serrano told deputies that all they
on offenders in Florida. “We are pro-
Jonus Serrano, 27, of N. Cort-
Under
would find was “a little
active fighting cyber-crime perpetrated
landt Dr., Citrus Springs, was arrested by
bit of weed,” according to
against children’, he says, ‘and the CCSO
the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office, Feb. 12,
the report. When deputies
Investigation
has a zero tolerance for child-porn.”
on numerous drug charges after the CCSO
told him they intended to
Tactical Impact and Vice Narcotics Units
search the entire house,
Continued on page 4- Squawk Box
executed a search warrant at his residence,
Col. Charles Michael “Mike”
Serrano replied that they
Adopt A Pet
shortly after 1:00 p.m.
Johnson Sr., 62, the number-two-ranking
would only find a little
When officers arrived, Serrano
officer in the Levy County Sheriff’s Office
bit of weed in the home
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was seen standing on the front porch, but
and an employee of approximately 20 years,
and maybe an ounce or
when he saw law enforcement, he ran inside
Serrano
submitted his resignation, last Tuesday, ef-
so in his car. He said he’d
and locked the front door. Several deputies
fective March 1. Johnson said that he and
recently snorted a line of
announced,”sheriff’s office, search war-
his family has suffered through relentless
cocaine, and that was the reason he had a
rant,” while another deputy knocked on the
media attacks that insinuated he has given
scale, a spoon and a $100 bill on the bath-
door, and when they received no answer,
preferential treatment to his two children,
room counter top. He said he’d flushed the
deputies breeched the door with a sledge
who also work for the LCSO, Dep. Chuck
rest of his cocaine before the deputies en-
hammer. When they went inside Serrano’s
Johnson and clerk Susan Everett. Col. John-
tered his home.
residence, they took all the occupants into
son said he had stood up for his children,
Members of the Tactical Impact
the kitchen, which included Serrano, anoth-
but had not tried to squash or cover up any
Unit searched the home and found numer-
er white male and two juveniles.
Continued on page 2- Resignations
Continued on page 2 - Trafficking Charges