Tip from social media app led to Raleigh child pornography arrest
A Raleigh man faces child pornography charges in a case prompted by a tip from a social media app, according to court documents.
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Cameron Alexander Hayes, 32, of 5508 Creekdale Circle, was indicted Monday on 12 counts of second-degree exploitation of a minor.
According to an application for a warrant to search a Dropbox file-sharing account, MeetMe.com notified the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that a user engaged in an online conversation in September expressing interest in receiving sexually explicit images of children and meeting a 10-year-old child for sex.
MeetMe is an app that allows people to find and chat with others nearby with similar interests.
The conversation came from someone in Raleigh, and the tip was forward to a North Carolina task force that specializes internet crimes against children. Investigators searched Hayes' home on Jan. 7 and found child pornography on his cellphone, according to the warrant application.
Investigators wanted to examine the data from a Dropbox account on the phone to determine who has been sending pornographic images to it, the warrant states.
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