Another Disney Cruise Line worker has been arrested for alleged possession of child abuse material in South Florida.
Tirso Neri, 44, was arrested on Monday by the U.S. Marshals Service and booked into the Broward County jail, records showed.
According to a criminal complaint, the arrest comes after an investigation that began in December 2023 found he was in possession of child pornography on two mobile devices.
Neri was identified as a crew member working for the Disney Dream, according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court.
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On or about December 18, 2023, after the cruise arrived from the Bahamas, United States Customs and Border Protection officers boarded the ship and searched Neri’s cabin, according to the complaint.
According to the affidavit, child abuse material, such as photos and videos of child sexual abuse, some with 9-year-old girls, and at least one with a boy between 10 and 12-year-old, was found on Neri's two phones.
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Neri confessed to having downloaded and purchased adult pornography through several group chats on the Telegram and Facebook Messenger and said that sometimes he obtained folders in chat groups and saved them to his phone without looking at them and then deletes them after, the complaint said.
Neri isn’t the first Disney Cruise Lines employee who’s been arrested this year for alleged possession of child pornography.
Another Disney Dream cruise employee, Amiel Joseph Trazo, was arrested in January when a border check was conducted and alleged child pornography material was discovered, according to the Miami Herald.
In February, 49-year-old Alvin Gonzalez, a native of the Philippines, was arrested after the Homeland Security Investigations Task Force said they found child pornography on his mobile devices after they received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Agents conducted a border search when Gonzalez stepped off a Disney cruise ship at Port Everglades and found an 8:41-long video on a Micro SD card, which showed two naked children having intercourse with each other, according to an arrest report.
