The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office says that hundreds of files of child sexual abuse materials were found on the son’s phone during a search warrant.
CRESCENT CITY, Fla. — A father and son were arrested earlier in July for sex offender-related charges, the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office announced on Friday.
The agency says that they received a cyber tip from the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children that child sexual abuse material (CSAM) was viewed on a computer owned by 27-year-old Dillan Coston.
A search warrant was executed at a Crescent City home tied to both Dillan and his father, 49-year-old Gary Coston, on Thursday, July 9. He was arrested and charged with possession of sexual performance by a child and using a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony.
Inside the home, PCSO says that a phone belonging to Dillan was found and seized. Later on July 14, detectives were said to have reviewed the phone and found “hundreds of files of children in various sex acts or nude ranging from babies and toddlers to close to adult age.
An AI conversation was also discovered, in which Dillan asked how many people get charged with a crime when Chris Hansen, former host of To Catch a Predator, is involved.
Because of these findings, the agency says that Dillan is charged with an additional 10 counts of possession of 10 or more child pornography images.
Police say that Gary Coston was not present when the initial search warrant was executed, which is said to be contrary to his probationary status. During the search, police found a social media account tied to Gary that was not reported in his FDLE sexual predator packet.
Gary had evenutally arrived at the home while the agency was still on scene, and he was arrested and charged with a probation violation and failure to report email or internet identifiers.
