BATON ROUGE, LA – Attorney General Jeff Landry today announced the
arrests of two South Louisiana men on multiple child pornography charges.
“My office and I remain committed to finding and apprehending
those accused of Internet crimes against children,” said General Landry. “With
the assistance of our law enforcement partners, we will continue to make our
communities safer by taking child predators off the streets.”
Urban Kinchen, 61
of Springfield, was arrested on 15 counts of
Possession of Sexual Abuse Images/Videos of Children (under the age of 13). He
was booked into the Livingston Parish Prison following a joint investigation
between the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation (LBI) Cyber Crime Unit, Homeland
Security Investigations (HSI), the Louisiana State Police, and the Livingston
Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Johnathan Croy, 36
of Ponchatoula, was arrested on four counts
of Possession of Sexual Abuse Images/Videos of Children (under the age of 13)
and two counts of Distribution of Sexual Abuse Images/Videos of Children (under
the age of 13). He was booked into the Tangipahoa Parish Jail following a joint
investigation between the LBI Cyber Crime Unit, HSI, the Tangipahoa Parish
Sheriff’s Office, and the Ponchatoula Police Department.
To report child exploitation, call the LBI at
800-256-4506; callers do not have to give their names. Attorney General
Jeff Landry’s Cyber Crime Unit has investigated thousands of computer crimes
that have victimized children from infants to 16 years of age.
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