Police in Eldridge recently helped the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department in an online child exploitation investigation.
A news release from the Eldridge Police Department said the two departments worked together to arrest a 56-year-old man from Indianapolis after an undercover investigation. An investigator from the Eldridge Police Department’s Special Investigations/Internet Crimes Against Children Unit engaged with the suspect, identified as Daniel Elliot, during a controlled online operation. Elliot allegedly used the internet to try to engage in illegal contact with someone he believed to be a minor.
Elliot was arrested and charged with:
- Child solicitation by a person over 21 to a child ages 14 – 16 using a computer, a class 4 felony
- Child exploitation/pornography – distribute/description, a class 4 felony
- Vicarious sexual gratification, a class 5 felony
- Two counts of child solicitation, a class 5 felony
- Dissemination of matter harmful to minors, a class 6 felony
Elliot is being held in the Marion County Jail in Indianapolis and has a court date on May 14…