Deputies Friday announced the arrests of four men in connection with a child porn ring with ties to Baldwin Park, West Covina and Whittier.

The arrests came as the result of a six-week investigation into the distribution of images of child pornography over the Internet, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said.
“This is very graphic and nasty material,” Los Angeles County sheriff’s Cyber Crimes Detective John Howard said.
“This material depicts children between the ages of 1 year old and 16 or so years old engaged in sex acts with adults,” Howard said. “Not all of the persons have the same type of material, but it was recovered in this investigation.”
Hundreds of images of child pornography were recovered from four desktop computers, four laptop computers, 9 portable flash drives, three computer hard drives and a digital video recorder seized by investigators who carried out search warrant Wednesday and Thursday.
“There is an ongoing effort to identify and help the children who are victims of these crimes, and who are believed to be located throughout the world,” sheriff’s officials said in a written statement.
Arrested on suspicion of possessing and distributing child pornography were 43-year-old Mario Aburto of West Covina, 19-year-old Rolando Garcia of South Los Angeles, 52-year-old Gregory MacClean of Palmdale and 72-year-old Jon Johnson of Fullerton, sheriff’s officials said.
The four suspects did not know each other, but stored and shared imaged of child pornography via the same online network, Howard said.
Additionally, MacClean’s wife, Soraya Solimano, 53, of Palmdale was arrested on suspicion of cocaine possession as a result of the investigation, Howard said.
In addition the suspect’s homes, detectives also searched a Baldwin Park insurance office owned by Aburto, as well as a Los Angeles County office where MacClean works, Howard said. The detective declined to identify the name of Aburto’s insurance agency or say what county agency MacClean was employed by.
Aburto was arrested Wednesday and released from custody Friday pending his initial court appearance, according to Los Angeles county booking records. Garcia was jailed Thursday and released from jail Friday after posting $40,000 bail.
Solimano was arrested Wednesday and release from custody the same day after posting $10,000 bail, records show. And
MacClean, who turned himself in Friday, remained in custody in lieu of $20,000 bail.
MacClean had fled from investigators when they attempted to meet him at his workplace at a county office in Whittier earlier in the week, sheriff’s officials said.
Booking information for Johnson was not available Friday.
All the suspects were expected to face charges in Los Angeles Superior Court, with the exception of Johnson, who was expected to appear in Orange County Superior Court, officials said.
The case was investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, the FBI and the Department of Justice’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
“In this case, investigators pro-actively sought out persons offering to distribute child pornography on the Internet,” according to the sheriff’s department statement.
“Once sources were identified, investigators then actively downloaded videos and photos from the sources. After confirming it was illegal child pornography, investigators determined the locations from which the images were distributed, then linked them to the suspects who were doing the distributing. The arrests followed.”
The investigation was ongoing, officials added.
Anyone with information related to the case is asked to contact sheriff’s Detective John Howard at 562-619-5257. Tips may also be submitted anonymously to L.A. Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.