MURRELLS INLET, SC (WBTW) – Deputies with the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Murrells Inlet man on a child pornography charge.
According to the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office, Lawrence Edward Tafoya is charged with third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor.
On September 19, the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office received a tip about a person who was possibly in possession of child pornography. Agents with the South Carolina Department of Probation, Pardon and Parole, while performing a routine search of a Tafoya’s cell phone, observed what they believed to be child pornography.
The cellphone was seized and a search by certified forensic examiners uncovered dozens of digital files depicting child pornography., according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Tafoya is a registered sex offender, he is being held at the Georgetown County Detention Center awaiting a bond hearing.
