The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) arrested Mark Swearingen, 31, and Mackenzie O’Bryan, 20, of Cottondale, on 11 felony counts of possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), along with additional charges.
The arrests followed an investigation initiated by FDLE based on several cybertips received from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) that alerted agents to files depicting the sexual abuse of children being uploaded to an online storage platform.
Agents identified Swearingen as the account user and executed a search warrant at his residence. The search resulted in the seizure of electronic devices containing multiple files depicting the sexual abuse of children, some as young as one year old.
Further investigation uncovered a video depicting O’Bryan engaging in a sexual act with an animal. O’Bryan was charged with an additional count of sexual contact with an animal, and Swearingen was charged with an additional count of possession of an image/video depicting sexual contact with an animal.
Swearingen and O’Bryan were arrested and booked into the Jackson County Jail.
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