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SMITH COUNTY — A Bullard man was arrested in early February for allegedly uploading pornographic images of children as young as one year old to his Google account. He reportedly traded his phone after learning his account had been deactivated. According to our news partner KETK, Smith County arrest documents revealed officers began investigating Dakota Reece on Jan. 8 after receiving a cyber-tip from Google Inc. through the Internet Crimes Against Children Data Systems.<\/p>\n
The tip reported that the user, later revealed to be Reece, had uploaded 61 media files to their Google Photos at the end of 2025 that had been flagged to contain child pornography.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll 61 media files were photos or videos of nude children ranging in age from approximately 1 year old to approximately 14 years old in provocative positions [\u2026] as well as adults engaging in [sexual acts] with children as young as 1 year of age,\u201d documents read.<\/p>\n
On Feb. 2, a search warrant was obtained for Reece\u2019s Google account were law enforcement learned an email was sent to him on Dec. 3, 2025, informing him that their account had been disabled because it contained harmful content.<\/p>\n
Internet history revealed that an hour after receiving the email, the account holder performed a factory reset on their iPhone and subsequently searched for ways to trade it in.<\/p>\n
Three hours after receiving the email about their Google account being disabled, Maps data showed that the user navigated to a local store. Law enforcement said that the user most likely did this so that they did not have the device that had been used to upload the files.<\/p>\n
On Feb. 5, the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s office spoke with Reece, who reportedly admitted that he had the account for several years prior to it getting disabled, but said he did not know how the child pornography got on his phone.<\/p>\n
Reece remains in the county jail on possession or promotion of child pornography on Feb. 5 with a $500,000 bond. He was previously booked in January on three warrants out of Nacogdoches, two for sexual assault of a child and another for aggravated sexual assault of a child and was released into Nacogdoches\u2019s custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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