{"id":71907,"date":"2026-06-24T19:31:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=71907"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:31:57","slug":"lakeland-man-arrested-during-child-pornography-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/06\/24\/lakeland-man-arrested-during-child-pornography-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland man arrested during child pornography investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-dominant-color=\"857366\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #857366;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wesly-hulin.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71909 not-transparent\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On June 23, 2026, PCSO Cyber Crimes detectives arrested 29-year-old Wesley Hulin of Lakeland and charged him with 5 counts of promoting sexual performance of a child after receipt of a NCMEC (National Center for Missing and Endangered Children) tip and the subsequent investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tip indicated that several files containing child sexual abuse material were uploaded by someone in Lakeland with an email address of raggieshaggy69@gmail.com. The files depicted children between the ages of 5 and 8 years of age engaged in sexual activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After positively identifying Hulin as the possible owner of the email address, they responded to his home and served a search warrant, seizing his electronic devices. During an interview, Hulin confessed to possessing child pornography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the initial review of his electronic devices, detectives located 5 separate images depicting child pornography, but after a forensic analysis of all the devices seized, more charges are possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<em>Criminals are finding new ways to misuse technology, but our mission remains the same: protect children and safeguard our community. We will continue to dedicate the resources necessary to investigate crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children and pursue justice wherever the evidence leads.<\/em>&#8221; \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Grady Judd, Sheriff<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hulin was booked into the Polk County Jail and charged with five counts of possession of child pornography (F3), and is being held on no bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 23, 2026, PCSO Cyber Crimes detectives arrested 29-year-old Wesley Hulin of Lakeland and charged him with 5 counts of promoting sexual performance of a child after receipt of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDZcL3dlc2x5LWh1bGluLndlYnA_Zml0PTI0MCUyQzMwMCZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6Ikxha2VsYW5kIG1hbiBhcnJlc3RlZCBkdXJpbmcgY2hpbGQgcG9ybm9ncmFwaHkgaW52ZXN0aWdhdGlvbiIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZG9pcyIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.C39e28Lc5rbmnYFsrPsLYSkRnZOGdNgmS2Di_CbthtcMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzA2XC93ZXNseS1odWxpbi53ZWJwIiwidHh0IjoiTGFrZWxhbmQgbWFuIGFycmVzdGVkIGR1cmluZyBjaGlsZCBwb3Jub2dyYXBoeSBpbnZlc3RpZ2F0aW9uIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.YNSLwo5DfLmRrRSGD3z4tpA2mqidYPky3W6Wlw8hQzcMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[14997],"class_list":["post-71907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-lakeland-man-arrested-during-child-pornography-investigation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71910,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71907\/revisions\/71910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}