BRAZORIA COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- An Angleton man was arrested for allegedly possessing multiple videos depicting the sexual assault of a child, the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office said.

Edward Lawrence Diaz III, 31, was taken into custody on Aug. 14 as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of child sexual exploitation, the sheriff's office said.

The investigation, which was led by the sheriff's office's Criminal Investigations Division and assisted by the Houston-Metro Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, led detectives to execute a search warrant in the 900 block of Southside Drive in Angleton.