HPD: Man pawns cellphone containing child porn

HOUSTON – A man has been accused of pawning a cellphone that contained almost 1,000 images of child pornography.

Deny Palencia, 32, has been charged with three counts of possession of child pornography.

Houston police said Palencia sold a Samsung Galaxy S smartphone at the Cash America in the 3800 block of Broadway Street.

As employees were cleaning the phone to resell it, they found inappropriate images and then called police, investigators said.

Detectives said they found 966 images of child pornography on the phone. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children identified 173 of those images of known, identified child pornography.

The children in the images were as young as 3 years old, investigators said.