(Credit: Office of Texas Attorney General)
Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced the Child Exploitation Unit of his office arrested James Scott Scruggs, 44, of Leander, on three counts of possession of child pornography, a third-degree felony.
A statement from Paxton’s office says a CyberTipline report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) alerted the Child Exploitation Unit to Scruggs, who was reportedly uploading child pornography to a social media account.
While executing a search warrant at Scruggs’ home, investigators from the Child Exploitation Unit found photos and videos of child pornography on his cell phone. The Office of the Attorney General’s Digital Forensics Unit seized several digital storage devices for examination.
During an interview, Scruggs admitted to investigators that he downloaded, viewed and uploaded files of child pornography.
