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Escambia Man Jailed After FDLE K-9 Sniffs Out Devices Containing Child Porn
January 21, 2021
An Escambia County man is jailed after a K-9 sniffed out electronic devices containing child pornography during the execution of a search warrant Wednesday.
Members of the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office Special Victims Unit, Homeland Security and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement served a child pornography search warrant at a home in the 2700 block of Godwin Lane.
With the assistance of FDLE Agent Stephanie Cassidy and her K-9 “Maple,” deputies were able to locate an electronic storage devices containing child pornography at the home. Cassidy trained Maple to sniff out anything that can digitally store information like USB drives, hidden cameras, computers, thumb drives, cellphones, CDs and DVDs.
ECSO’s lead investigator Suzanne Pollack arrested 26 -year old Aaron Michael Rogers, charging him with 13 counts of possession of child pornography and one count of transmission of child pornography. Rogers was booked in the Escambia County Jail with a $132,500 bond.
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9 Responses to “Escambia Man Jailed After FDLE K-9 Sniffs Out Devices Containing Child Porn”
John dogs are trained to smell almost anything, they don’t all alert on the same scents
but somehow they can do it.
Electronic devices that have memory storage have a coating of a chemical called triphenylphosphine oxide, or TPPO. This is what the dogs are sniffing out. These devices can’t be made without it..
Not sure I buy this. What sort of unique smell does a solid state storage device give off that a dog can detect?
I mean, great if they can. I just sounds far-fetched, like that FHP trooper years ago that said he could smell pot and it turned out he was just profiling.
I am glad they got this guy…. but i do not think i believe that this dog was taught to sniff our pcb based products in homes that are already “knee deep” in computerized stuff.
Knowing how its going to turn out, why do those that do this type of evil still do it?
Getting caught should also allow the person ONE out… Save everything involved if they choose it. He would have taken it too……
Why do they bond these idiots out? You can’t fix SICK
Need to go after the ISP folks as well for allowing this type of activity to happen in the first place. IT can filter/flag….
neuter this individual.
Great job Maple and handler, Agent Cassidy