A trip to a mobile phone repair shop ended with a Buford man’s arrest after a worker discovered child pornography on his cell phone, investigators say.
Hall County sheriff’s investigators arrested 27-year-old Daniel Allen McFalls on March 22 and charged him with sexual exploitation of children. They say forensic processing done on McFalls’ phone revealed at least 300 images of child pornography.
According to investigators, the phone was dropped off at a repair shop in Gwinnett County on October 20, 2022. After discovering pornography on the device, the employee called the Gwinnett County Police Department. When Gwinnett PD investigators determined McFalls lived in Hall County, they turned over the case to the Hall County Sheriff’s Office.
“HCSO investigators received the cell phone in early November 2022, obtained a search warrant for the device, and began forensic processing of the phone,” says Hall County Sheriff’s Public Information Officer B.J. Williams.
The forensic processing was completed last week, and investigators examined the data this week. On the cell phone, they found at least 300 still photos of children, believed to be between the ages of 1 and 14, engaged in sexually explicit activity, Williams says.
McFalls was booked at the Hall County Jail where, at this time, he remains without bond.
