An American man is arrested in Indonesia for allegedly selling porn videos on social media
Taylor Kirby Whitemore was arrested on March 25 by the Intelligence and Immigration Enforcement team when he was about to leave Bali's Ngurah Rai international airport for Malaysia, immigration official Yuldi Yusman said.
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