AURORA, Colo. — An Aurora man has been arrested on several counts of child sexual exploitation of a child following a nearly two-year investigation into his crimes, a spokesperson with the police department said Thursday.

Derald Vandawalker, 51, of Aurora, was arrested on Nov. 6 by members of the Aurora Police Department Direct Action Response Team. He was wanted on an active warrant out of Arapahoe District Court for 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a child, according to news release.

Police said his arrest stems from January 2024, when detectives received a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) about a cloud storage account in Aurora sharing or in possession of child sexual abuse material. Those tips were followed three additional cyber tips “

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