GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Alexander William Callison, 28, was arrested yesterday on child pornography charges.
On December 10, a CyberTip was received about two videos with child sexual abuse material (CSAM) uploaded to a Kik account and then sent to another user account. The tip originally went to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, but the IP address turned out to be associated with a phone number on the account of a Gainesville man.
When the case was transferred to the Gainesville Police Department in April after Seminole County received the information about the phone account, a detective sent a search warrant to Kik for the contents of the Kik account, and a response was received on May 5. The contents of the account reportedly included 651 images/videos, 591 of which showed the same person masturbating (a thin, muscular white male with a cross tattoo on his chest and a second tattoo on his forearm).
The owner of the phone account did not match this description, but the detective found that a phone number on the account was associated with Callison, with an address in Duncan, OK. Callison’s Facebook profile reportedly included an update on June 8, 2024, in which he said he moved to Gainesville, and Callison appeared to be a possible match for the man in the videos.