Escazu man arrested as part of major US, Latin America child porn investigation
(Photo courtesy of the OIJ)
December 15th, 2015 (ICR News) Sixty people have been arrested in a joint operation against child pornography during raids across Latin America as well as Spain and the United States.
Authorities say Operation Without Borders also rescued three minors – ages 9, 14 and 15 – who were being used to make child pornography in Mexico. The videos were posted on Internet sites, on social media and sent by email.
The youngsters allegedly were “used by close relatives or neighbors to obtain images of child pornography that were later posted on Internet sites, on social media networks and sent by email,” Mexico’s National Security Commission said in a statement released late Sunday, the AFP news agency reported.
Amongst those arrested in the multinational operation was a man living in the suburb of Escazu, west of Costa Rica’s capital San Jose, according to information obtained by ICR News.
Agents from Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigative Police (OIJ), in cooperation with INTERPOL, arrested the 31-year-old Costa Rican man, identified by the last name Oconitrillo, on Thursday, officials confirm. Agents seized evidence from the man’s home including computers, hard drives, DVDs, thumb drives and mobile phones.
The man was arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography.
Authorities say Operation Without Borders involved raids in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Spain and the United States.
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