Local Man Arrested in Lafayette Parish Cyber Crime Case

(KPEL News) - Investigators with the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office have arrested a man who lives in the unincorporated area of Scott after allegations surfaced that the man was in possession of child sexual abuse material.

According to Valerie Ponseti, Public Information Officer with the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office, the arrest was the result of an ongoing investigation based on a cyber tip.

Ponseti says the cyber tip was received earlier this year, and as a result, multiple search warrants were executed. According to Ponseti, the warrants identified their suspect as 23-year-old Reed Doucet.

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Reed was arrested and booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center on the following:

Two counts of Possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material

The Louisiana statute for this crime is RS 14.18.1. It defines this, in part A, as the following:

It shall be unlawful for a person to produce, promote, advertise, distribute, possess, or possess with the intent to distribute child sexual abuse materials.

The penalty for this offense is as follows:

E.(1)(a) Whoever intentionally possesses child sexual abuse materials shall be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars and shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than five years or more than twenty years, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

He was arrested on Wednesday. Ponseti says no other information will be released at this time, but the investigation is ongoing.

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