Over 2,000 Child Porn Images And Videos Found On Electronics Of 16 Suspects: Authorities

POLK COUNTY, FL — Sixteen Polk County residents in the age ranges 15 — 68 have been accused in the last month of owning child pornography and sharing child pornography, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a news conference Thursday.

Undercover detectives found five victims in the one-month long investigation,"Operation Guardians of Innocence VII," that finished up Sept. 24. More than a thousand images and videos showing children being sexually battered were found on the suspects' electronic devices, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. The 16 men arrested face a total of 2,777 felony charges, deputies said.

Judd held up pictures of each suspect, listed their charges and shared what they told authorities during the conference. Thirty-three-year-old Patrick Johanson, a former corrections officer at Polk Correctional Institute, told detectives he has viewed and shared child pornography on Facebook Messenger.

"'I knew one day you'd be here to pick me up,'" Judd said imitating Johanson. He confessed to looking at child porn for the past 10 years. He also spoke of being sexually aroused anytime he looked at child porn. "He said he felt bad afterwards (looking at child porn)," Judd said. "Afterwards. But he would still do it again and again. He's a nasty man."

Two Winter Haven men, Harrison Egbert, 32, and David Lavin, Jr., 30, face charges of use in a child of sexual performance and capital sexual battery, police said. During an interview, Lavin admitted to detectives his involvement with multiple sexual battery crimes and child pornography crimes. Lavin took one of the victims multiple times to Egbert's residence and participated in the videoing and photographing of the sexual abuse, according to authorities.

Two women, 30-year-old Ivonnette Leon of Winter Haven and 36-year-old Shannon Speller of Winter Haven, face charges for interfering with the investigation.

According to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, the other suspects from the investigation are listed below with charges:

• David Boyd, 52, Lakeland. Detectives searched Boyd's electronic devices and located images of children as young as 6-months old being sexually battered, some of which Boyd had photoshopped himself into. Boyd told detectives he worked for South Florida Gun and Pawn as a clerk. Boyd is charged with enhanced possession of child pornography and promotion of child pornography
• Jonathan Derisse, 20, Davenport. Detectives searched Derisse's phone and located images of children as young as 8-years-old being sexually battered. Derisse told detective he was currently unemployed, but he had previously worked a summer job at Sea World. Derisse is charged with possession of child pornography and promotion of child pornogaphy.
• Jesse Durant, 29, Davenport. Following up on a tip, detectives searched Durant’s cell phone and located images of children as young as 6-months-old being sexually battered. Durant told detectives he works for Hilton Vacations as an overnight maintenance supervisor. Durant is charged with enhanced possession of child pornography.
• Ashton Howard, 17, Lakeland. Detectives searched Howard's electronic devices and found video files of children as young as 10-years-old being sexually battered. Howard admitted to detectives that he uses his cell phone to send child pornography through SnapChat. Howard is charged with two counts of promotion of child pornography and violation of probation. Howard is currently on juvenile probation for written threats to kill or do bodily harm.
• Patrick Johanson, 33, Winter Haven. Following up on a tip, detectives searched Johanson's electronic devices and located images of children being sexually battered, some as young as 6-months-old. He is charged with enhanced possession of child pornography (F2) and promotion of child pornography
• Tyerek Lampkin, 22, Lakeland. Detectives searched Lampkin's electronic devices and located video files of children as young as 12-years-old being sexually battered. Tyerek admitted to detectives that he uses his cell phone to view and trade child pornography. Tyerek is charged with enhanced possession of child pornography and promotion of child pornography.
• Ludjy Masson-Santana, 21, Kissimmee. Following up on a tip, detectives searched Masson-Santana's electronic devices and located images and video files, that had been sent through Kik, of children as young as 4-years-old being sexually battered. Masson-Santana told detectives he was is a housekeeping manager at Hilton Orlando in Lake Buena Vista. Masson-Santana is charged with enhanced possession of child pornography and promotion of child pornography.
• Daniel Millan, 16, Lakeland. Following up on a tip, detectives searched Millan's electronic devices and located images and video files of children as young as 12-months-old being sexually battered. Millan admitted to deputies that he traded child pornography online. Millan is charged with enhanced possession of child pornography and promotion of child pornography.
• Nicholas Nason, 27, Lakeland. Following up on a tip, detectives searched Nason's electronic devices and located images and video files of children as young as 5-years-old being sexually battered. Nason is charged with enhanced possession of child pornography.
• David Oyunjargal, 15, Winter Haven. Following up on a tip, detectives searched Oyunjargal's electronic devices and located video files of children as young as 2-years-old being sexually battered. Oyunjargal is charged with promotion of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
• Jonathan Ramos, 31, Davenport. Following up on a tip, detectives searched Ramos's electronic devices and located images and video files of children as young as 4-years old being sexually battered. Ramos told detectives he worked in the deli department at the Davenport Publix. Ramos is charged with enhanced possession of child pornography.
• Kevin Schmidt, 54, Lakeland. Following up on a tip, detectives searched Schmidt's electronic devices and located video files of children as young as 7-years-old being sexually battered. Schmidt told detectives he worked as a floor coating installer for Tru-Grit in Lakeland. Schmidt is charged with 32 counts of promotion of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
• Richard Sizelove, 68, Lake Wales. Following up on a tip, detectives searched Sizelove's electronic devices and located images of children as young as 6-months-old being sexually battered. Sizelove told detectives he has been viewing child pornography for approximately 20 years. He also told detectives he worked as the manager at the Bullock RV Park in Lake Wales, and that he was a Navy veteran who served during the Vietnam War. Sizelove is charged with enhanced possession of child pornography.
• Guadalupe Villanueva, 15, Lakeland. Following up on a tip, detectives searched Villanueva's cell phone and located images of children between the ages of 4 and 6-years-old being sexually battered. Villanueva is a student at Mulberry High School. Villanueva is charged with possession of child pornography and promotion of child pornography.

*Enhanced child pornography meets one of the following criteria, according to detectives: