Scott Daniel McConnell, 28, from Anderson, Ind. but arrested on cell-phone search warrant in Goodlettsville, Tenn.
Detained in Madison County, Ind. Jail on $10,000 bond.
By JOSH MITCHELL
Editor
River Mississippi News
DAVIDSON COUNTY, TENN. VIA MISSISSIPPI REPORTING SITE — A cyber-security sexual abuse/exploitation case involving an Indiana man arrested in Tennessee initially gained the attention of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation news release states.
The Tennessee agents last week announced the recent arrest of a man named Scott Daniel McConnell.
McConnell is 28 years old and from Anderson, Ind., according to the news release. McConnell is charged with two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, officials said.
McConnell was indicted on the charges by a Davidson County, Tenn. Grand Jury.
McConnell has been officially detained in a jailed holding area in Madison County, Ind. on a bond totaling $10,000.
Anderson Ind. is four hours east of St. Louis on Interstate 70 and just over four hours north of Goodlettsville, Tenn. via Interstate 65, where the search warrant was executed on a residence he was at.
Officials then impounded McConnell’s “cell phone” as official criminal evidence.
McConnell’s apprehension and arrest on the electronic sex-crime charges arrived after Tennessee law enforcement agents obtained substantial information from the exploited children’s center, which is a nationwide organization, the press release notes.
The official charges for which McConnell will be prosecuted for are identified as “sexual exploitation of a minor.”
The cyber-evidence reviewed during the investigation included a tip regarding a “social media app,” the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation news release adds.
McConnell’s case included a smartphone data trail discovery in April 2020, which ultimately linked to “an account” that “was uploading child sexual abuse material,” the release says.
The residence in Goodlettsville, Tenn. was shortly thereafter the location of a search-warrant execution. Child pornography “images” were on a “cell phone” that was taken into official evidence by law enforcement investigators, the release adds.
McConnell, law enforcement determined through its investigation, allegedly owned the phone and the account linked to the child-sexual-abuse “images,” according to the TBI news release.
