Panama City Beach man reportedly told police he collected child porn for almost a decade

PANAMA CITY BEACH — Police armed with a search warrant have arrested a Panama City Beach man at his home on child porn charges.

Christopher Steven Roll, 40, was booked into the Bay County Jail on a child pornography possession charge and more charges are pending, police said.

According to a news release late Friday afternoon, officers with the Beach Police Department's Criminal Intelligence Unit began investigating Roll after Walton County Sheriff's Office investigators "flagged a local man as potentially sharing and downloading child pornography."

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Detectives found that he was using a file sharing network to obtain several images of children as young as infants engaged in sexual conduct, the release said.

The detectives secured a search warrant and went Friday to Roll's home where he was arrested without incident.

According to the news release, Roll admitted downloading and collecting the images for almost a decade.

This article originally appeared on The News Herald: Panama City Beach Police arrest man on child porn possession charges