What is the name of your state? missouri
We are needing some advice. Here is what happened:
2 days ago, I got knocking on the door. My fiancee was at work. I opened the door and 3 police officers were standing there. One of them asked me if my fiancee was here and I told him where he was at. He then proceeded to tell me that he has a search warrant for any electrical devices that can store data files and pictures for child porn. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. As they were searching my house, I called my fiancee to get home quick. The police officers were gathering up all of our computers including monitors, keyboards, mouse. Once my fiancee got home, they read him his rights and told them what they were looking for. My fiancee is knowledgable about computers and gave the police items that was in the warrant that the police didn't even know what they were like thumb drives. The officer told us that police in a different county retrieved a computer that had child porn on it and one of the files came from our IP address. We were fully cooperative with the police. My fiancee was asked to go to the station to write a statement. We found that they had taken one of my photo albums which they stated in the report it was of "young girls". I pointed it out to the police officer that it was mine and it was girls pics of when I did their hair for prom and homecoming because I use to have my cosmetology license and made a portfolio of the work that I did. The police officer let me take it with me but we are worried that they are going to turn the slightest thing into something its not. My fiancee has no such crap on his computer or mine. My fiancee was honest with the police and told them that he did have some adult porn on his computer but nothing of children. I do my schooling online and now I dont have any way of doing it since they took every computer. We do not have a local forensic lab so it will take several weeks if not months or years before we get our computers back. The police left our house in shambles when they did the search and never read me my rights before starting the search. We recently found out that someone has been using our wireless network since our computers were taken. We don't want the police to think we are hiding anything by hiring an attorney right away but also want to protect ourselves because my fiancee did nothing wrong and would never ever have anything like child porn in this house or anywhere else. What should our next step be and has anyone had this happen to them before?
We are needing some advice. Here is what happened:
2 days ago, I got knocking on the door. My fiancee was at work. I opened the door and 3 police officers were standing there. One of them asked me if my fiancee was here and I told him where he was at. He then proceeded to tell me that he has a search warrant for any electrical devices that can store data files and pictures for child porn. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. As they were searching my house, I called my fiancee to get home quick. The police officers were gathering up all of our computers including monitors, keyboards, mouse. Once my fiancee got home, they read him his rights and told them what they were looking for. My fiancee is knowledgable about computers and gave the police items that was in the warrant that the police didn't even know what they were like thumb drives. The officer told us that police in a different county retrieved a computer that had child porn on it and one of the files came from our IP address. We were fully cooperative with the police. My fiancee was asked to go to the station to write a statement. We found that they had taken one of my photo albums which they stated in the report it was of "young girls". I pointed it out to the police officer that it was mine and it was girls pics of when I did their hair for prom and homecoming because I use to have my cosmetology license and made a portfolio of the work that I did. The police officer let me take it with me but we are worried that they are going to turn the slightest thing into something its not. My fiancee has no such crap on his computer or mine. My fiancee was honest with the police and told them that he did have some adult porn on his computer but nothing of children. I do my schooling online and now I dont have any way of doing it since they took every computer. We do not have a local forensic lab so it will take several weeks if not months or years before we get our computers back. The police left our house in shambles when they did the search and never read me my rights before starting the search. We recently found out that someone has been using our wireless network since our computers were taken. We don't want the police to think we are hiding anything by hiring an attorney right away but also want to protect ourselves because my fiancee did nothing wrong and would never ever have anything like child porn in this house or anywhere else. What should our next step be and has anyone had this happen to them before?