Gainesville man arrested on 11 child pornography charges

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Matt Kevin McMillin, 62, was arrested yesterday on 11 child pornography charges.

On November 19, 2024, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a CyberTip about child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on a Dropbox account, including 15 images that had been uploaded from an account under the name “Kevin McMillin.” Dropbox provided an email address associated with the account, along with several login IP addresses.

One of the IP addresses was for an AT&T Wireless account in Florida, one was for a Comcast Cable account in Ft. Myers, and one was for a Cox Communications account in Gainesville.

A Gainesville Police Department (GPD) detective issued a subpoena to Cox and learned that the account was under the name of Kevin McMillin. A subpoena to Google for information associated with the email account produced the name “Kevin McMillin,” and a subpoena to Dropbox produced “Kevin McMillin” as the owner. Dropbox also reportedly provided the contents of the account, which included additional CSAM images and child erotica images; there were also “numerous” images and videos of a white male, including an image of a Florida driver’s license issued to Matt Kevin McMillin and an expired Colorado driver’s license issued to Matt Kevin McMillin.

The detective reported that 26 CSAM images were found in the Dropbox (the 15 original images plus 11 more); the images showed the same pre-pubescent girl and “would be considered a ‘series.'” Two other images of the same pre-pubescent girl were reportedly considered “child erotica,” as opposed to CSAM.

The detective searched Florida’s driver’s license database and located a license for McMillin, with a picture that matched the pictures of the white male in the Dropbox account.

A subpoena to Google for the contents of the suspect’s account reportedly produced seven images of pubescent juvenile females, “nude or posed sexually/provocatively”; further steps are being taken to determine the ages of the females. The account reportedly contained 14 additional images of age-questionable females, nude or in sexual/provocative poses. Many non-CSAM photos on the Google account matched images on the Dropbox account.

At about 8 a.m. on July 19, GPD executed a search warrant at McMillin’s home in Buckingham East (8400 block of NW 6th Avenue), and they spoke with McMillin.

Post Miranda, McMillin reportedly admitted ownership of the Dropbox account but said it “disappeared” a few months ago; he said that only he and his spouse had access to the Dropbox account, and he was adamant that his spouse was not responsible for the CSAM images on the account.

McMillin reportedly said the images were “pure handling of something that wasn’t understood”; he denied recognizing the images that had been stored in his Dropbox account. He reportedly said he has seen child pornography in the past on the internet and has accessed the dark web, as recently as a few months ago, to research suicide. When he was asked whether the reported images or any other CSAM images would be found on any of his devices, he reportedly said he wasn’t sure.

McMillin has been charged with unlawful use of a two-way communications device and 10 counts of possession of child pornography. He has no local criminal history. Judge Meshon Rawls set bail at $275,000.

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