Child Porn Sting: Issaquah Teens Arrested

ISSAQUAH, WA - The state's joint Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC) recently arrested 87 people after a child pornography sting called "operation broken heart." Some of the men arrested in the sting include residents of Issaquah, Redmond, and Renton - including several teenagers.

The operation targeted men sharing "graphic and egregious" child porn images through peer-to-peer (P2P) networks - when two or more computers are linked but bypass an outside Internet server.

According to the King County Sheriff's Office, detectives worked on the following cases:

A man in Renton - who later moved to Issaquah - was arrested after confessing to possession of child porn. An investigation of the man's computer also allegedly turned up images. After police visited the man's Issaquah apartment, the man's wife passed on images that she had found.

Two Issaquah brothers, ages 18 and 17, were under investigation and admitted to detectives that they "may have accessed" child pornography. Their computers are still being searched for evidence.

A second set of brothers, ages 19 and 17, were under investigation for file sharing. A search of their computers turned up "a large collection" of child porn, according to the King County Sheriff's Office. The 19-year-old was arrested on charges of dealing and possessing child porn.

Read more about the work of ICAC here.

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