98 charged in suspected criminal network discovered after child abuse suspect murdered these 2 FBI agents
ALBERTO LUPERONAug 9th, 2023, 11:59 am
More than two years after a child abuse suspect murdered two FBI agents, U.S. and Australian authorities announced 98 arrests in the related investigation into a “sophisticated online child abuse network.”
“Everything you do online leaves a trace. To those predators who seek to exploit children online, remember the next person you engage with online could be a police officer,” Glen Donaldson, acting detective superintendent with Queensland Police Service Child Abuse and Sexual Crime Group, said in a statement published Tuesday.
U.S. federal authorities were serving a search warrant at an apartment in Sunrise, Florida, on Feb. 2, 2021, when David Lee Huber, 55, a suspect in violent crimes against children, opened fire on agents as they tried to breach the door, investigators said. He killed FBI agents Laura Schwartzenberger, 43, and Daniel Alfin, 36, before dying by suicide, authorities said.
Authorities now say this investigation had an international scope. Related work led to the arrests of 19 men in Australia and 79 people in the United States, authorities from both nations said in a press conference.
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