A Texas Department of Public Safety probable cause affidavit detailed a 34-year-old man was arrested after child pornography was uploaded to a Google Cloud based storage account.
David Anthony Chavez was charged with 10 counts of child pornography, a third-degree felony.
The 10 files included six videos and four images, the affidavit detailed. The videos ranged from 18 seconds to a little more than 17 minutes.
A CyberTipline Report from Google submitted the tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on Dec. 29, 2021, the affidavit stated. Google detailed that between March 6, 2021 and Dec. 28, 2021, that 71 files that Google believed to be child pornography were uploaded to a Google cloud based storage account. The Google user account information was provided which included Chavez’s name, mobile number, date of birth and verified Gmail address.
On Feb. 2, DPS says it submitted a request for an administrative subpoena with the subscriber’s IP address and phone numbers. Two days later, DPS received the administrative subpoena return for the IP address for a Cable One account listed to Chavez. The install date for the Cable One account was July 9, 2020, and the account was active with the last bill paid on Jan. 19.
DPS detailed in the probable cause affidavit that on Feb. 7 its Special Agent Michael Harless reviewed and documented the file associated with the CyberTip. The CyberTip stated 71 files had been uploaded from the Google subscriber account controlled by Chavez, but only 40 downloaded. All 40 met the definition of child pornography.
Harless contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about the remaining 31 files but at the time of this affidavit he hadn’t received a response, the affidavit stated.
The uploaded files consisted for images and videos of juvenile pubescent and pre-pubescent girls by themselves and engaged in sex acts with adult men and women.
Chavez was arrested and booked into the Ector County Law Enforcement Center on Feb. 16, jail records show. He has 10 bonds totaling $150,000 and was still in custody as of Friday morning.
