P.v. Fatemy CA3

FACTS AND HISTORY OF THE PROCEEDINGS

Prosecution

Christie Hirota is a detective with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office. She is a member of the Sacramento Valley High-Tech Crimes Task Force, Internet Crimes Against Children. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (National Center) had issued a CyberTip to the Sacramento Valley Task Force based on information it had received from Dropbox that one of its accounts potentially contained child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Search warrants were executed against Dropbox, Google, Comcast, and Verizon. Detective Hirota reviewed the results of those searches. Dropbox provided material from one of its accounts that consisted of six files. The files had been uploaded to Dropbox on May 20, 2021. Detective Hirota viewed the files, and four of them included videos of children involved in sex. Fifty-six videos and 14 images of CSAM were obtained from Dropbox. Information in the Dropbox files indicated to Detective Hirota that defendant was the subscriber on the account and was using the account to store his files. The e-mail address of the user who uploaded the material was ali.banei@gmail.com. The username on the account…