Click Here for ADA Accessible Format
Polk County Sheriff’s Phone# 863-298-6200
If in an emergency Dial 911
According to the arrest affidavit, detectives completed an investigation of Katchalov's electronic devices and private drop box account and found 10 additional videos depicting child pornography. One video depicted over 30 different scenes with victims as young as two-years-old being graphically sexually battered by adults, including sexual penetration and sex acts with adults and other children, and videos graphically exposing children in a lewd manner.
Katchalov is scheduled for first appearance hearing today, February 22, 2018, as a standard protocol, for the additional 40 counts of possession of child pornography.
"Thankfully, during our investigation we have not determined there to be any local victims. However, if there are any local children who had regular contact with Katchalov and who have experienced any inappropriate contact from Katchalov, we want parents to call us if they believe their child is a victim. Katchalov was in possession of and regularly watched horrible, graphic, and sexually deviant child pornography and I am thankful for our detectives who did an outstanding job thoroughly searching his electronic devices and accounts." - Grady Judd Sheriff