Last week detectives with the Hammond Police Department Juvenile and Criminal Investigations Divisions, along with assistance of the Cyber Crime Unit of the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, began investigating a report of possession of child pornography.
HPD detectives were alerted by a local business, who employed the suspect, that they had found pornographic images on his work-issued phone.
During a search of the phone, detectives located 286 images of a pornographic nature involving children.
48 YO James Mifflin of Bogalusa was charged and arrested for 286 counts of possession of Child Pornography.
He was booked and transferred to Tangipahoa Parish Prison where he will await his trial. His bond was set for $42,750,000.
All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
