A 60-year-old metro Atlanta man was arrested on Tuesday on three counts of first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor.
The arrest followed a multi-state investigation involving the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and the Cobb County Police Department.
The investigation began in 2025 after a concerned parent contacted the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office regarding allegations that an older man, Jeffrey Dean Ives, 60, of Cobb County, was paying underage girls for sexually explicit photographs…