A 26-year-old man was arrested this Tuesday in Miami after his own wife alerted the police upon discovering hidden child pornography on her partner's cell phone, according to local news outlets.
The detainee, identified as Leonel Orozco, a Colombian citizen residing in the Allapattah neighborhood, remains in jail both due to criminal charges and a migration hold imposed by federal authorities. It all started when the woman checked her partner's device and found content that immediately alarmed her.
The detectives from the Miami Police Department took a sworn statement from the wife, who explained that she had found a hidden folder on the cellphone containing suspicious videos and digitally manipulated images of two minors.
"The woman indicated that both images had been altered to display nudes of the minors," the police report states according to Telemundo 51.
The minor confirms the manipulation
The researchers also interviewed one of the girls who appeared in the altered photographs.
The minor stated that the original image was taken during a family gathering and that she had not authorized it to be altered to simulate nudity, according to the report.
The interrogation and inspection of the phone
After gathering those testimonies, the investigators confronted Orozco, read him his Miranda rights, and he agreed to answer questions without the presence of a lawyer.
In addition, he signed a consent for the officers to search his phone.
During that inspection, according to the report from Local 10, investigators discovered five videos classified as child sexual abuse material under Florida law, with victims ranging from five to seven years old.
The police report included a statement from the accused himself, although that section was redacted in the version released to the public.
The charges and the appearance before the judge
This Thursday, Orozco appeared before Judge Mindy Glazer of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida in a Miami-Dade court.
The magistrate determined probable cause and set a total bond of 10,000 for seven charges: five related to the possession of child sexual abuse material and two for promoting a distorted sexual representation without consent.
Under Florida Statute § 827.071, each image or video may constitute a separate charge.
Simple possession is a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years per charge.
Orozco remains detained at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center (TGK) in Miami-Dade.
Immigration detention means that, even if Orozco paid the bail set by the court, he could be transferred to federal custody to begin a deportation process to Colombia.
El caso incluye una retención migratoria de ICE contra el detenido. Para seguir de cerca este tipo de noticias y todo lo relacionado con las autoridades migratorias en Estados Unidos, visita nuestra sección de
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