A 19-year-old Desert Hot Springs nonmigratory has been arrested and booked into the John J. Benoit Detention Center successful Indio connected charges related to the possession and dissemination of kid enactment maltreatment material.
Pedro Elizalde was taken into custody Tuesday successful Banning without incident after a astir monthlong probe by Desert Hot Springs constabulary detectives who are affiliate members of the San Diego Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the Riverside County District Attorney's Office Child Exploitation Team.
Detectives executed a hunt warrant of Elizalde's Desert Hot Springs residence, and recovered implicit 600 images of kid enactment maltreatment material, Desert Hot Springs Detective Sergeant Chris Saucier said successful a property release.
Elizalde remains successful custody successful lieu of $300,000 bail.
Jonathan Horwitz covers acquisition for The Desert Sun. Reach him astatine jonathan.horwitz@desertsun.com oregon @Writes_Jonathan.
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