Pickett County Man Charged with Sexual Exploitation of a Minor After Multi-Agency Investigation

After a comprehensive investigation by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and local police, a man from Pickett County has been charged with sexually exploiting a juvenile. A 51-year-old man from Pall Mall named Wade Ellis Williams is accused of possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

According to WSMV, the investigation was started in April 2023 by the TBI’s Internet Crimes Against Children team and the office of the 13th Judicial District Attorney General Bryant Dunaway in response to a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding a cloud storage account that was purportedly containing CSAM. This account has been connected to Williams, a sex offender with a history of conviction. In July 2023, investigators searched his residence and found a number of electronic devices that they believed contained more than 100 CSAM files.

According to WKRN, Williams was arrested on November 22 as a result of this extensive investigation, which took place over the course of 18 months and entailed collaboration between the TBI and the Pickett County Sheriff’s Office. At the moment, he is being held at Pickett County Jail, with a

A Pall Mall man has been arrested and charged with sexually exploiting a juvenile following an investigation by the @TBInvestigation, Pickett County Sheriff’s Office, and the office of the 13th Judicial District Attorney General Bryant Dunaway.This link: https://t.co/UhGXp6p6H

$1 million is the bond amount.

No more information about the probe has been made public. Nonetheless, the TBI urges anyone with information about child exploitation online to report it. The TBI Tipline can be contacted by phone at 1-800-TBI-FIND or by email at [email protected]. Incidents can also be reported via the NCMEC CyberTipline. This arrest demonstrates how state and local agencies work together to prevent child exploitation, according to a social media post from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

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