September 12, 2016
David Carnes (5-29-97) was arrested by LCSO investigators on
September 8, 2016 for Lewd and Lascivious Battery and Production of Child
Pornography. LCSO investigators received
a complaint earlier this month from the family of a juvenile victim. The family
alleged Carnes was having sexual intercourse with their 15 year old daughter
and videotaped these sexual encounters. To further complicate matters, when the
victim and Carnes broke up, Carnes’ jealously got the better of him and he sent
one video to the new boyfriend who lives out of state.
Investigators worked with an out of state agency to recover
the video from the boyfriend. In the interim, Carnes was approached and
interviewed by LCSO investigators. Investigators obtained a statement from Carnes
who confessed to taping his sexual encounters with the victim, acknowledged he
knew her age and admitted to sending the video to her new boyfriend. Investigators were also able to recover the
device Carnes used to send the video and in doing so also recovered additional videos.
Carnes was booked into the Levy County Detention Facility
where he is being held on a $250,000.00 bond.
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Lt. Scott Tummond
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