A 35-year-old man from Violet, Louisiana, is facing 226 total charges spanning two parishes after investigators say they found child sexual abuse material on his devices and in a cloud storage account. Anthony Justin Etheredge was booked into the St. John Parish Correctional Center on Wednesday, held on a fugitive warrant tied to a separate 68-count case out of St. Bernard Parish.
According to WWL-TV, the investigation began after the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation received a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children flagging a Synchronoss cloud account that contained child sexual abuse material. That tip set off a cross-parish response that eventually drew in agents and officers from multiple jurisdictions. The St John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest on Facebook, crediting the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation for the case.
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