Lakeland man stored child porn on borrowed cell phone, detectives say
LAKELAND, Fla. (FOX 13) - A Lakeland man is accused of storing disturbing child porn imagery on a cell phone he borrowed, detectives said.
Polk County detectives said a couple met 41-year-old Larry Meggers through a church program six years ago. They offered him a place to live along with an older cell phone they were no longer using. When the couple asked for the phone back, they found more than 500 child pornography imagery stored on it, officials said.
Detectives were notified and said the images and video showed children as young as 6 months old and as old as 13 years old. It does not appear to involve any children living in Polk County or any whom Meggers had contact with, they said.
"The couple who took Meggers in and gave him a place to sleep and a cell phone to use contacted law enforcement immediately when they saw these awful images,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd in a statement. “Here's another example of how we rely on our citizens to see something, and say something."
Meggers, who was described as a handyman, was arrested on 200 counts of child porn possession.