Hall County Sheriff’s Office Investigators arrested a Gainesville man late last week during an investigation into the distribution of child pornography.
Mark Jason Wood, 44, of Gainesville, was charged with nine counts of distribution of child sexual abuse material and one count of sexual exploitation of children. Wood was taken into custody by Investigators after they executed a search warrant at his Whitmire Circle residence on Thursday, August 15.
Wood was charged with the exploitation count on the day of his arrest for being in possession of a video depicting minor children engaged in sexually explicit conduct and acts, says HCSO spokesperson Derreck Booth. Investigators obtained an additional arrest warrant for the distribution counts on Friday, August 16, when examination of devices seized during the search of Wood’s residence revealed approximately nine videos of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct
The Sheriff’s Office, in cooperation with the Georgia Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, detected the criminal activity during an online investigation that began on August 3.
Wood remains in the Hall County Jail without bond. The case remains under investigation by the Sheriff’s Office and ICAC Task Force.
