2 King County men face child pornography charges in the same day; Bellevue PD announces 'crack down'

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Prosecutors filed child pornography charges Thursday against two King County men who were arrested Wednesday morning by separate police departments; there was no connection found in court documents between the two.

Corin Hobbs, 64, faced two counts of first-degree viewing images of sexually exploited children. Michael Isidoro, 24, faced one count of first-degree dealing images of sexually exploited children and one count of possessing similar images.

Hobbs was arrested and booked into jail first. Bellevue police first started investigating him in April earlier this year after National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) sent the department a CyperTip report, probable cause documents said. The report detailed a Bellevue IP address that had been associated with sharing an image of child sexual exploitation.

The officer on the case accessed the files the IP address was associated with in the report and confirmed the images were what they were described as.

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Using a search warrant in May, the police officer found out the IP address belonged to Hobbs and listed his residence at a Bellevue apartment.

Hobbs' home address was confirmed by police in late August and on Wednesday, detectives with the Bellevue and Seattle police departments searched the apartment with a warrant. He was interviewed while authorities searched and confessed he had viewing pictures and videos of children being raped for about 10 years, documents said.

He said he admitted he was sexually attracted to young girls, specifically under the age of 12.

In a statement, the Bellevue Police Department said it was expanding its efforts to crack down on these crimes as a response to increased complaints about images of sexually exploited children.

Wednesday's arrest was the second significant bust in just over a month, the department said.

"Child pornographers profoundly damage these children through sexual exploitation and abuse. Some of the victims are as young as infants, and the majority are not even 12-years-old," Captain of Investigations Travess Forbush said in the statement. "The increase in investigative hours will lead to more search warrants and arrests."

Hobbs was released Friday on $50,000 bond. He had an arraignment scheduled for Sept. 26.

Isidoro was arrested at 11:30, Wednesday morning after Seattle police had been investigating a CyberTip report since early February of this year.

Probable cause documents from the Seattle Police Department said the website Tumblr had notified the NCMEC about 50 images of sexually exploited children shared by a user associated with an IP address in Seattle.

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A search warrant of Tumblr and an internet provider in late April brought up a residence on Seward Park Avenue South in Seattle, documents said. A search warrant of the apartment was granted Wednesday and police searched Isidoro's devices and interviewed him. Images were found on his phone.

He told police he started receiving images from an unknown contact on Snapchat "three or four months ago." He then said received them in 2017 as well.

Isidoro later told a Kirkland police detective that he shared images over the internet using Dropbox.

He was arrested and booked into King County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bond. He had an arraignment scheduled for Sept. 26.