Friday, June 3, 2005 | ||
Bad Links? | Peachtree City cops nab seventh child pornography suspect By JOHN THOMPSON The local Wal-Mart was the site of the Peachtree Citys latest Internet sting operation. The Peachtree City Police Department arrested Christopher Ryan Cola, 29, of Atlanta Thursday and charged him with computer pornography and violating the Child Exploitation Prevention Act of 1999. The arrest followed a two-week operation involving computer chats between Cola and an undercover Peachtree City police officer, said Chief Jim Murray. Cola had agreed to meet the undercover cop, who he believed to be a 15-year-old girl at Wal-Mart on Ga. Highway 54 and take her back to his house in Atlanta. Officials said Cola recently moved to Atlanta from California and is a production engineer with Turner Broadcasting. He is currently being held at the Fayette County Jail and will face a bond hearing today at 3 p.m. in Fayette Magistrate Court. Murray said hes glad his squad was able to make another arrest, but said its really only the tip of the iceberg. You get one arrest for every 100 thats not caught, he added. All of the arrested suspects have been college graduates, and the problem affects all walks of life, Murray said.
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