St. Cloud Police reported Wednesday it had made an arrest in the case of a man, who worked at an Osceola County school until recently, they say had hundreds of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children stored on his electronic devices.
Mark Stone Harden, 57, of St. Cloud, was arrested and charged with 10 felony counts of possession of sexual conduct by a child and one count each of promotion/depiction of sexual conduct by a child and unlawful use of a two-way communication device.
According to police, after receiving a tip in August from the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, its Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) unit launched an investigation into the suspect’s Amazon Photos account with images uploaded during a back from an Apple iPhone, according to the arrest warrant. On Friday, Oct. 3, detectives obtained a search warrant for Harden’s Georgia Avenue home and recovered electronic devices containing hundreds of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children. Police made contact with the suspect later that day at a nearby intersection…