This wasn't a random arrest. Police say it stems from the suspect's own actions. And when investigators begin explaining what those actions mean to the people around him, the reality of it all finally sets in. I'm Detective St. Cloud and PD. Hello, how you doing today, sir? Can I see your license, registration, and insurance for me? Thanks so much. Thank you so much. Do you have your registration and insurance? My name is Detective Burkhart with the St. Cloud Police Department, okay? Do you have your registration and insurance with you? Yes, ma'am. I don't know what's going on. I'll explain everything to you here in just a second, okay? My name is Detective St. Cloud. Sorry? Can I take it out of this? Yeah, that's fine. Wait, that's the Well, that's my baby mama. Can you 10-15 10-28 out of Florida? All right. Sir, can I go ahead and have you step outside of the vehicle for me, please? Stand up here for me, please. So, I'm going to have to go ahead and look you up. Look him up. He's got my receipt. Huh? Okay. You got your cell phone on you or not? Yes, he's got his phone. I think he might have just stuck it in his pocket. My cell phone. Where's your phone, sir? My cell phone. I don't race for your phone, sir. Is it Is your phone in your pocket? >> Yeah. Anything else on you that we we need to be made aware of? Okay. So, this is an ongoing investigation that we're conducting right now, okay? The detective that's in charge of the case will explain everything to you. At this point, you are going to be detained, okay? You're going to hold this for me, please? Can I call my daughter? Um we'll we'll take care of that here in just a few, okay? Can I explain this to you at 12:30? Okay, can you do me a favor? Put your hands behind your back for me, please? Thanks, sir. At that moment, additional officers arrived on scene and helped explain the situation to the suspect. As everything became clear, the tension in the air noticeably shifted. The realization seemed to hit him all at once, and his facial expression quickly changed. My bad. Hey, um I'm going to talk to him. You want to I'm going to bring you back here. You You got the cuffs on? You can take them off. Do me a favor, sir. Go ahead and put your hands down where we can see them for me, please. There you go. Sorry about that. Sorry if I pulled your hair. Can I grab my coffee? Your coffee? Uh she can get it. >> Yeah, can you grab his coffee for You can relax. Good? Hey, you come back here with me. She'll bring you your coffee to you. Here you go. Good to go. Oh, sorry, man. Sorry. Sorry. Okay, so first make it clear, you're not under arrest or anything like that, but I kind of want to explain to you what's going on. That's why you're sitting in the front seat, and um I wanted you know like I said, explain to you everything that's going on. So, I'm going to move this over here. Is it hot? Feels good, right? My car don't have AC, so I'm not Oh, really? I'm not used to AC in a vehicle. There you All right. All right, good. Thank you. All right, so I'm Detective Rivera, this is Detective Caitlin. We both work with the St. Cloud Police Department. Um we're both um part of a task force that's called Internet Crimes to So, what we do is make sure that no are being supported or harmed in any way. Exactly. So, um we want to make sure first that your house who's Is there any There's no living at your house or anything like that. Like small Okay. Okay. So, that that's kind of what we do. So, before I [clears throat] get into like what I want to talk to you about because you're sitting in front of the front seat of my car. I'm going to read you You know what Miranda is? I'm going to read you that because you're sitting in front of you know, I Anybody who gets in my car, even though you're not under arrest, I'm still going to read it to you so you know, okay? Sir, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to talk to a lawyer and have them present with you before and during questioning. If you give up your right to remain silent and later wish to stop answering questions, no further questions will be asked. So, one of the things that part of our job, you know, is like I said, is things and social media. Um do you have like social media accounts or anything that you get on? I do. You do? Do you know Do you happen to know the names of them? I don't know their names. I'm on Facebook, Instagram. Uh I'm on I follow some people on TikTok. So, just like the basic ones. Yeah, that's the world of other social media. Okay. Do you do a lot of chatting with other people on there? Sometimes. Sometimes? Not really on Facebook or Instagram. Um do you have like a storage media like storage accounts like cloud accounts, you know, how they have Google Drive and they have like Dropbox and you have stuff like that. Do you have anything like that? I don't. In your phone right now, um would there be anything on your phone like that would be considered like underage or anything like that? Probably. Well, I mean, you're you're doing an investigation, so Okay. I think And everybody makes mistakes, man. I know >> Yeah, I made a mistake, and I've been feeling like that for like in my life. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. I don't I get it. But uh just about to step away from all that and get rid of everything and But of course, and here we are. Yeah. Where's your phone at right now? On top of my car. Can you grab his phone? It's not crazy stuff. Yeah. Okay. It's just the videos. Well, here's what I'll do. This is what I'll do. Um I have a search warrant to take your phone. Uh I'm sorry. I'm going to I'm going to seize your phone, make sure I have to do another search warrant to go ahead and take your phone. At some point or We have a search warrant for your house, but I want to make sure that who's at your house right now. Just That's the only one there? Okay. We don't want to scare her or anything like that. That's exactly what happened. All right. If I show you some pictures they're not they're they've been edited out. You know, there's there's in them or anything like that. Would you be able to tell me if these are the types of things you would see like people in that group you were in or whatever? That you know. >> Possibly. And it's like this being in your Amazon Photos account. I don't know. I don't remember my Amazon Photos. Okay. How about that? Yeah, those two were the same. That was the same person. I mean, I don't know if this I don't know who that is. I don't know I'm saying the same person said that. Oh, the same person said that? You don't remember how long ago? You know, it's been a lot of like way back when all that started. Okay. And uh what What are these group chats? Do you remember like what what was it the apps that you were in? Yeah, that was a It was like a a private group on Telegram. But I don't know the people. Yeah, yeah. How Facebook Have you used Facebook or anything like that? I rarely go on there. How about Instagram? I have an Instagram account, but again, I rarely post. So, mainly that kind of content like like it would be on Telegram. It wouldn't be on anything else? And how your relationship with your daughter is good? It's good. It's good. Good. Okay. And don't take this the wrong way. The only reason I'm asking The only reason I'm I'm asking this is because that image that I showed you with the stuff on them kind of re The hair resembles what your daughter had back in the day. None of this is your daughter, right? None of it. You never daughter put hands on your daughter or anything like that. Cuz you know, there's groups out there that do that, so Of course. So, none of them is your daughter. Yeah, absolutely. Or nobody you know. You can tell talk to Okay. Do you remember them two videos I showed you where you said it's it's probably the same girl or the same guy sent you that. Do you remember putting them in your Amazon account? Yeah, that had to be automatically uploaded through the Through your phone, yeah. Through your phone, it might happen, yeah. It was going to happen anyway. Um I'm going to get with my sergeant. I'm not going to You're You're going to be free to go um you know, when we're done talking here and stuff like that. Um are you like assuming you're going to head head on to work? Well, it's 11:30, yeah. I need to go. I was supposed to I was supposed to clock in at 11:00, but I need to go there, clock in, and run straight back home to get my daughter. My main concern right now is taking her to her doctor. After that, I whatever. You know, I'm good. 12:30. I'm going to let you go sit in your car, and then get your stuff. Right now, you're just to sit in your car, and then I'll let you know. As officers prepare to follow him home with a search warrant, his daughter unexpectedly arrives. Officers take a moment to explain the situation to her, and from that point on, the tone of the encounter shifts in a different direction. Hey, come check her out for me, Doc. She's having breathing problems. >> No, I'm okay. I'm just I'm anxious. I know, but he he's a uh one of our SWAT medics, so let him check you out and make sure you're okay. >> Yes. What's going on? Is your dog friendly? Yeah, he loves people. He's my baby. What's going on? But if you talk to him, step back in, okay? Let's get you checked out so you're not like breathing too hard. >> No, I'm just I'm anxious, guys. I just wanted to know what's going on. Everything's okay. We had a search warrant for you But why? We haven't done anything. Okay, I don't get it. We'll talk to you there I'm one of the paramedics, okay? So Hi, how are you? What's me Harden. Okay. No, I'm just I just want to know what's going on. >> All right. Yeah, they'll explain to you. So, my job is just to make sure that you're okay. So, do you have any chest shortness of breath? >> Right now, I'm just I'm anxious. Anxious, okay. Do you take medication for that or no? I have the pills. Okay. Are they inside? Did you take them today like you're supposed to or not? >> Last night I have I have night time ones. I haven't been taking my morning ones. >> Okay. So, do you Anybody else inside the house? No, my dad doesn't work. Okay. So, a question. Do you feel like you want to get checked out? They'll explain to you, okay? They'll explain to you. So, >> I feel fine. >> As of now, just anxiety, right? Yes, sir. All right. So, just take a deep breath. Breathe in, breathe out. You'll be fine, all right? So, um and that's your dog, right? So, there's no other animals inside the house? Can I get him in the garage? I So, besides that, any other animals besides this one? Just my baby. No, just that one, okay. All right. This is crazy. I've never even had an encounter with the police. And you're not in any trouble. Yeah, but if my dad is, it makes no sense. He doesn't do anything but go to work in Florida. For how long did you grow up in this house? I'm not sure exactly what age I moved in this house, but we moved here from Georgia when I was 3. And we moved in two other places and we finally got this house. And while you lived in Florida, in St. Cloud, did any other girls ever live with you? Never lived, no. No. He dated one girl a long time ago and that was it. What about people your age? No. Hell, no. >> stayed with you? Um my friends, they will come over and stay the night and stuff like normal, but that's it or I go to their house. They sleep in my room with me. It's nice to meet you. My name is Detective Burkhart, okay? How old are you? I'm 22. You're 22. I I can imagine you have a million questions cuz there's a lot going on. Okay. You said you're 22? >> Yes. So, so we're here So, obviously we have a search warrant for the house. Okay, so myself and Detective Rivera are part of a task Yes. Okay. So, are you familiar with what we we look for and stuff like that? >> watch all the cop stuff. Okay. So, unfortunately we did get a tip from your house. What the Um yeah, and we we spoke to your dad. >> Sorry for the language. You're okay, sweetheart. You can That's okay. I can understand your frustration. So, >> So, we always want to try to make sure that everybody in the house is safe and so we talked to everybody in there. We did speak to your dad already. Um we do have some concerns. Do you have any birthmarks on you at all? Okay, hang on. There are cuz the the thing that concerns me is that there is Let me see. I'm not sure what Do you happen to have one like right over here on either side? You can look. I'm not sure what you consider a birthmark. Um what about the other side? Um I don't know. Well, what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you a picture and then I'll kind of explain to you what what we're here for, okay? So, do you happen to recognize There's no in this photo that I'm about to show you, okay? Do you recognize this photo or that jewelry or anything anything about this photo? Not at all. Not at all? No. Okay. Do you see that there's like a birthmark here and here and here? >> Oh, yeah. So, you kind of have one here. Yeah. That's definitely not me. Anytime we have like a a What do we call it? A tip like this, we like I said, we just like to talk to everybody in the house and kind of try to figure out like where this all started from and you know how like Wi-Fi works? So, like it would come like out of a certain house. Yeah. Right? So, we we confirmed that it came from your house. We did talk to your dad. It did come from him. Oh. Um so, do you do you have any knowledge or anything about that that you might >> Not Not about that, no. No. I have never Okay. And this is going to sound crazy, but you have never been touched or anything inappropriately or anything like that? >> No. That was our main concern cuz the the girl in the photograph Yeah, the girl in the photographs that we saw did resemble you and that was very concerning for us. Okay. >> You know, so we wanted to make sure that you were safe. >> is for us. Yeah. Yeah, our concern was mainly for you and to kind of try to figure everything out. So, like I said, we did talk to your dad and he did admit that he does have that type of material on his phone. That's a Can you just be a decent man? Why do men have to be this way? Well, what do you mean by that? Like >> gross. Men are just always gross. You know, as a woman, you can't even walk down the street without getting You know, even at 16, me walking downtown with my cousin, men randomly yelling, barking, you know? They're just gross. Yeah. Um I can't tell you exactly what's going to happen from here, but we are going to take all the devices that are in the home. Um Really? Are you going to take my No, no, no. All the electronics, so more so like phones, tablets. If they if we can I'd say that they belong to you, we're not going to take those from you. So, cuz I want to play Roblox and I like to play on my dad's laptop, but now y'all have to take that cuz we share it. So, I just have to read this to you real quick. I should have read it to you on there. It says um County, Florida, in the name of the state of Florida, all singular and sheriffs of the state of Florida. Items that would tend to show dominant control and data maintained on a computer or computer-related storage devices such as floppy disk tapes, backups, computer programs, and zips, diskette drives of particular data in the form of images and or videos. And they kind of let your daughter know a little bit what's going on. They don't know exactly what's going on, so it's something you'll have to probably explain to her sometime. Did you want to talk to your dad right now? I know you said you had a doctor's appointment today. Is that something you need to get to? >> I don't even know if I want to I don't know if I want to reschedule or not. I don't know. Am I allowed to talk to him? Yeah, of course. Be okay. I'm going to go to the house. Okay. You shouldn't be having a Who are you saying to you like that? Be a [ __ ] grown ass man. I am a woman. It would be different if I was your son. I am a woman. I have a woman's body. I only have a dad. I don't have a mom to go to because my dad is a weirdo. You shouldn't be having me in this situation. I only have you. Shut Shut up. If you have that your phone, it's weird. I shouldn't have to deal with this, Dad. It's only me and you. This is stupid. I want to be able to live with you, but I don't feel comfortable in this house. I don't know what to do and this is making No, but it doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter because it Dad is the same. All right. So, they know what we're doing. He knows. Do they know what they're looking for? Yeah, I'm going to Okay. I think you guys know what they're asking for, Dad. Dad, this is Yeah. Are you recording? What started as an online tip quickly escalated into a major criminal investigation. Police say 58-year-old Mark was taken into custody after a court-approved search of his home and electronic devices. According to court documents, Harden is accused of sharing illegal explicit material involving minors through online platforms. Investigators also allege he communicated about secretly photographing people without their knowledge. Harden, a former school employee who had resigned before his arrest, is being held on a $26,000 bond as the case proceeds through the legal system.