Rockwall police have arrested three men and charged each with possession of child pornography in unrelated investigations this week.
Police and Texas Rangers executed search warrants Tuesday and Wednesday on separate locations in Rockwall before arresting Geoffrey Ehlert, 42, Donald Nega, 47, and Daylon Tippens, 19, according to a police news release.
All three were in the Rockwall County Jail.
On Tuesday, officers searched a home in the 3000 block of Preston Court after receiving information from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that someone there had trafficked in pictures depicting child sexual abuse, the release says. Officials said they investigated for months before identifying Ehlert as the person who downloaded the images. He had “gone to great lengths to conceal his identity,” they said. His bail was set at $60,750.
Tippens was arrested Tuesday after police searched a home in the 1000 block of Signal Ridge Place on a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that someone at the address had downloaded images of child sexual abuse, the release says. His bail was set at $90,000.
Nega, who also was charged with tampering with evidence, was arrested Wednesday after authorities received information from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the child exploitation unit of the Collin County Sheriff’s Office that someone at a house in the 500 block of Big Oak Court had downloaded photos of child sexual abuse, the release says. His bail was set at $60,000.
