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Investigation of parked vehicle leads to arrest of Swayzee man on various sexual misconduct charges

On May 1, an Alexandria police officer observed a parked vehicle in the parking lot of the Church at Broadway Park in the 300 block of N. West Street. Having never encountered a vehicle parked in the area after hours, the officer approached the vehicle noticing the windows were fogged up. When he pulled up to the vehicle, he turned on his flood lights but did not see a shadow of a person through the passenger side.

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Alexandria man faces Child Exploitation, possession of Child Pornography charges

Austen Mills, of Alexandria, was arrested following an investigation by the Westfield Police Department, Hamilton Council Metro Child Exploitation Task Force. A detective of the task force was assigned to investigate a Cyber Tip submitted by Dropbox, Inc., a file hosting service offering cloud storage of data. The report stated that Dropbox, Inc. had found a user of their service had uploaded a file of child pornography and provided the user information indicated Mills was the perpetrator.

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Anderson man arrested after leaving children alone for extended period

Recently, Alexandria police officers were dispatched to the 900 block of W. Washington Street to investigate a domestic dispute. The caller told officers he was having problems with Corey Hollingsworth over children in the caller’s custody at the time that Hollingsworth had left alone at his home in Anderson. The caller a said he was concerned Hollingsworth was coming to the Alexandria resident to get the children, and that he was angry and possibly using drugs.

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