Las Vegas nurse arrested on child porn charges

A 27-year-old antheral was arrested Aug. 23 connected aggregate kid pornography charges aft a monthslong investigation, Las Vegas constabulary and tribunal records show.

Carl Yebes faces six counts of possessing kid pornography and 2 counts of distributing kid pornography, according to the records.

The man’s LinkedIn and Facebook profiles place him arsenic a registered caregiver astatine Summerlin Hospital and Medical Center. His licence is progressive done Dec. 31, according to authorities nursing records.

In March, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received 9 tips from Google and 1 from Dropbox reporting that hundreds of files of evident kid intersexual maltreatment worldly had been stored into Google Drive oregon Dropbox from an relationship nether the sanction Carl Yebes, according to a precocious released apprehension report.

The tips were sent to Las Vegas constabulary connected March 31, and they began an probe connected April 5.

Investigators recovered that the reports could each beryllium traced backmost to an IP address, oregon an code fixed to immoderate instrumentality connected to the internet, linked to Cox Communications. According to the report, Cox told constabulary that Yebes was the subscriber linked to that code from May 21, 2019, to May 14, 2021.

When executing a hunt warrant connected the accounts, constabulary recovered 543 files of kid pornography stored connected Yebes’ Google Drive, and astir 81 connected his Dropbox. Of the 81 successful Dropbox, the study said 32 were of the aforesaid child, categorized into antithetic property groups, “as the kid had been sexually exploited for a fig of years.”

Police utilized photos of Yebes’ car posted connected Facebook to way down his address, and a justice granted a hunt warrant connected May 28 for his flat and for the caller flat helium had precocious begun moving to. A warrant was granted for his cellphone connected June 3, the study said.

In July, the study said, investigators recovered much than 10,000 files of kid pornography stored betwixt Yebes’ accounts, devices and hard drives.

Yebes admitted to constabulary that helium owned the email code and telephone fig linked to the IP address, according to the report, and that helium had uploaded kid pornography to his Google Drive and Dropbox accounts.

He was released from custody connected his ain recognizance a time aft his apprehension connected the information that helium enactment retired of occupation and person nary interaction with minors.

A spokeswoman for Valley Health System, which operates Summerlin Hospital and Medical Center, said Thursday that she could not remark connected employment matters.

Yebes is scheduled to look successful tribunal connected Sept. 21.

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