Bell man arrested in Gainesville on child pornography charges
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Jason Joseph Howe, 20, of Bell, was arrested yesterday for possession of child pornography.
On December 16, a Special Agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) was assigned a CyberTip reporting that suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM) was transmitted in a Snapchat private message.
The CyberTip was originally assigned to the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office, but a preliminary investigation found that Howe, who lives in Bell, was the owner of the Snapchat account, so the investigation was turned over to FDLE.
Snapchat data reportedly showed that an iPhone SE 2020 logged into the account a few minutes before the CSAM image was sent in a private chat.
On December 20, FDLE Special Agents reportedly made contact with Howe in the parking lot of GrowHealthy Dispensary (4880 Newberry Road); Special Agents had a warrant to search his iPhone and reportedly took possession of Howe’s iPhone SE 2020.
Post Miranda, Howe reportedly confirmed that the iPhone SE 2020 was his phone and that he had a Snapchat account. When he was shown a sanitized version of one of the CSAM images, he reportedly said he recognized it and acknowledged that it was “graphic in nature.” He reportedly said he did not know the identity of the child in the image and said it was sent to him in a Telegram chat as part of “an estimated 100 videos or images”; he said about 60 of those were CSAM images.
When a Special Agent showed Howe part of the Snapchat private chat, Howe reportedly said he had been engaged in a “role-playing chat” and had pretended that the girl in the image was his little sister. The other account in the chat reportedly claimed to be under 18 years old.
Howe has been charged with two counts of possession of child pornography, two counts of transmitting harmful material to a minor, and use of a two-way communications device to facilitate a felony. Howe has no criminal convictions in Alachua County or Gilchrist County. Judge James Colaw set bail at $425,000.
Articles about arrests are based on reports from law enforcement agencies. The charges listed are taken from the arrest report and/or court records and are only accusations. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
I’m sure Jason will be playing the role of little sister while incarcerated.
Maybe more like a male sex slave
And that is so true and I hope they Waller out his walls to where he’ll never recuperate and never give him antibiotics so he can heal he needs to die off like the disease he is
“Waller out his wall”
🤣🤣🤣 – thank you Marie!
Why are evil people attracted to “tolerant” college towns?
ACLUSPLCDNC 💩👹👿👺🤡
It has to do with population (i.e., the size of the group). The larger the population, the more specific evils go unnoticed. The more evil goes unnoticed in the specific instances, the more it is tolerated as normal in the aggregate. The lunacy is in any one group of people thinking that their group is immune from harboring evil, and that it’s only some other group’s problem.
use your brain, it has nothing to do with the fact that Gainesville is a college town or that it’s largely blue. Gainesville has a population that is 261.3 times larger than Bell. Larger cities have better resources, more things to do, more jobs, more housing, etc. It’s like you WANT to live in a constant state of rage towards your make-believe enemy…
Nasty mother f***** needs this s*** castrated with no antibiotics to be able to heal, I was 10 years old and got sexually molested and I’m 47 now and it still messes with me and I try to have a normal relationship but that’ll never be because of people like that he’s sick in his head
I’m truly sorry you were abused and I cannot fathom the trauma it caused. Although evil abounds in this world please remember that there are many good people too. Don’t give up on relationships — people need people! I’ll pray for you.
Stealing the Innocence is sickening if the devil’s works people like him need to be deployed in the overseas and if he lives let him live over there cuz he’ll die off pretty soon
Biden, “Too bad he’s been charged at the state-level, I can’t pardon him for that. Well, maybe I can try.”