Winter Haven Man Wanted, Charged With 132 Counts Of Child Porn

WINTER HAVEN, FL. - Detectives from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office Computer Crimes Unit (CCU) charged five suspects for possession of child pornogr

WINTER HAVEN, FL. – Detectives from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office Computer Crimes Unit (CCU) charged five suspects for possession of child pornography after receiving tips from the National Center for Missing and Endangered Children (NCMEC) that the suspects were possibly transmitting or downloading the harmful images and videos.

Detectives served search warrants at the five suspects’ houses and seized all of their digital devices for further analysis. Each suspect faces additional charges if more illegal content is found.

Four of the suspects were arrested and one suspect is wanted.

Polk County Sheriff’s Office detectives obtained a warrant for the arrest of 39-year-old Jianchai Chen of Winter Haven.

Chen has been charged with one count of transmission of child pornography (F2), and 132 counts of enhanced possession of child pornography (F2) after an on-scene preview of his devices, during which detectives found 132 images and videos of children as young as 5-years-old being sexually battered.

Detectives from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office Computer Crimes Unit (CCU) charged five suspects for possession of child pornography after receiving tips from the National Center for Missing and Endangered Children (NCMEC) that the suspects were possibly transmitting or downloading the harmful images and videos.

Chen is currently in China where he lives part-time with his wife and children. When in the United States, he works at Lucky Wok restaurant in Lake Wales.

The images did not appear to depict local Polk County children, but the investigation is ongoing to identify them.

The felony child porn charges are upgraded (enhanced) if the suspect possesses 10 or more images of child pornography and at least one image contains any of the following criteria: