Phillip Butler
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Isle of Wight County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Portsmouth man while closing an investigation Friday morning.
According to investigators, as they were closing out an investigation and search warrant on a home in Carrollton, an undercover agent with the office received a message from a target the department suspected of child sexual exploitation.
As a result of the message, Portsmouth man Phillip Lee Butler was arrested on several charges relating to child exploitation.
Police say Butler was a subject of an investigation into solicitation of child pornography that had been developing over the past few weeks.
Butler was charged with use of a computer to expose genitals to a minor, use of a computer to solicit a minor to expose genitals and use of a computer to propose a sex act with a minor.
He is currently being held at the Western Tidewater Regional Jail without bond.
