ARCHER, Fla. – Cornelius Nathaniel Davis Jr., 29, was arrested yesterday and charged with 33 counts involving the possession of child sexual abuse material, including videos depicting six local children.
An Alachua County Sheriff’s Office detective said a CyberTip was assigned to him in August 2026 after two files containing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) were reported on a Dropbox account. The IP addresses connected to the CyberTip reportedly led to the residence where Davis lives with a family member.
A subpoena for the Google account linked to the Dropbox account reportedly identified Cornelius Davis as the name associated with it.
A subpoena issued to Dropbox reportedly returned 8,104 files. According to the detective, most depicted juvenile males or males whose ages could not be readily determined.
The files were arranged in folders labeled with the names of the juvenile males shown in the images. Based on metadata in the photos, videos were often uploaded the day after they were created. Investigators identified everyone depicted in the folders. All but two of the individuals were local to Alachua County, with most from Archer or Newberry. One was from New York, while another was from Arkansas; that individual was later arrested for allegedly producing videos showing him sexually abusing children while he was still a juvenile.
The arrest report detailed eight specific folders:
The detective reported that 418 CSAM files involved subjects who were identified and confirmed to be children. All but two of those individuals were living in or had lived in Alachua County when the images were produced.
The arrest report also described additional investigative steps that authorities said linked the Dropbox account to Davis.
On October 21, deputies executed a residential search warrant at Davis’s home and detained him during a traffic stop.
After being read his Miranda rights, Davis reportedly acknowledged having a Dropbox account and confirmed that a related email address belonged to him. He said the account contained “random videos and media on other social media sites” that he had saved to Dropbox. When the detective said the investigation involved CSAM, Davis reportedly repeated that he simply obtained “random things online” and saved them.
When told that the folders contained images of several local children, Davis reportedly acknowledged knowing them. Asked how he obtained photos and videos of nude children engaged in sexual acts, he said they came from girls who had previously dated the boys. According to the report, Davis said he communicated with the girls and that they sent him the files “on their own.” He reportedly said that when he told a girl he knew the boy shown in the nude media, she would send additional photos and videos of that boy. Davis said he then created a Dropbox folder using the boy’s name and saved the files there.
When asked why he saved the files, Davis reportedly said that, in the case of one specific folder, he wanted to be able to explain to the boy that sending that type of content online was dangerous.
When the detective asked whether any of the boys knew that Davis had files of them nude or engaged in sexual acts, Davis said they did not know.
When the detective asked what age he considered to be a “child,” Davis reportedly said that an individual over the age of 12 is no longer a child. The detective noted that this corresponded to the ages of the boys in the files, which range from 12 to 17.
When the detective asked Davis what should be done to people who possess child pornography, Davis reportedly said they should be talked to and offered help. When asked if he needed help, he said he felt okay and knew right from wrong. When the detective asked if he thought it was right or wrong to save files of nude children to his Dropbox, he reportedly said it was wrong.
Davis has been charged with 30 counts of possession of child pornography, two counts of possessing and distributing CSAM (for the two files in the CyberTip), and one count of unlawful use of a two-way communications device. Judge Adam Lee set bail at $3.5 million.