(COLUMBIA, S.C.) South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Christopher Brian Powers (age 29) of Timmonsville, South Carolina, on five charges connected to the exploitation of a minor. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Attorney General's Office made the arrest. Investigators with the Florence County Sheriff's Office, also a member of the state’s ICAC Task Force, assisted with the investigation and arrest.

Investigators state Powers possessed and distributed multiple files of child pornography.

Powers was arrested on September 19, 2017. He is charged with four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, second degree (§16-15-405), a felony offense punishable by up to ten years imprisonment on each count; and one count of sexual exploitation of a minor, third degree (§16-15-410), a felony offense punishable by up to ten years imsonment.

The case will be prosecuted by the Attorney General's Office.

Attorney General Wilson stressed all defendants are presumed innocent unless and until they are proven guilty in a court of law.