Crime & Safety

FBI and Fort Worth PD Arrest 15 on Charges Related to Child Sexual Abuse Material

During the operation, police seized about 150 electronic devices.

The FBI Fort Worth and the Fort Worth Police Department arrested 15 subjects on state and federal charges related to the possession, receipt, and distribution of child pornography.

According to a social media post by FBI Dallas on Wednesday, the joint effort was called Operation Wolf Pack. In addition to the arrests, the agencies seized approximately 150 electronic devices that are suspected of containing child sexual abuse material.

Operation Wolf Pack also covered over 40 cyber tips from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children related to internet child exploitation crimes.

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The organization's CyberTipline is a place where children and advocates can report the sexual exploitation of children, including:

  • Sexual images or videos of children
  • Someone chatting online with a child about sex
  • Sexual abuse of a child offline
  • Someone seeking or offering a child for sexual acts in exchange for something of value
  • Unwanted sexual emails or texts either involving children or sent to a child
  • Websites or domains that contain sexual content embedded in them which minors might see

"Thank you to our partner law enforcement agencies on the Longhorn Violent Crime Task Force as well as Fort Worth Police Department's Internet Crimes Against Children Unit for helping us protect vulnerable children in the North Texas area," the post states.

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Fort Worth PD shared FBI Dallas' post with the following message: "[Fort Worth PD] will continue to track down and hold child predators accountable in our city."

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