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DALLAS—Matthew Bagert, 40, a former priest in Grand Prairie, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 51 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in April to one count of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Bagert, now a resident of Richardson, Texas, will also be required to register as a sex offender and must surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on January 19, 2010. In plea documents signed and filed with the Court, on February 1, 2005, Grand Prairie Police executed a search...

"...announced the introduction of legislation to assist in the fight against sexual exploitation of children by requiring suppliers of Internet services to report Internet child pornography. The proposed Act would apply to suppliers of Internet services to the public, e.g. Internet access, electronic mail, content hosting and social networking sites. It would require them to: •Report, to a designated agency, tips they receive regarding Web sites where child pornography may be available to the public; and •Notify police and safeguard evidence if they believe that a child pornography offence has been committed using an Internet service that they provide.

The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Rutland resident Allan Edward Patrick, 58, was sentenced on November 18, 2009 to 151 months in federal prison after his guilty plea to charges that he produced child pornography at his residence, located at 21 Royce Street in Rutland. Because he used his residence to facilitate his criminal conduct, the District Court ordered the defendant to forfeit that residence to the United States. The property is now in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. Judge Murtha also ordered the defendant to pay his four minor...

It looks like the leftist partisans who violated Joe the Plumber’s privacy, rifled through Linda Tripp’s confidential records, and spent weeks literally navel-gazing at Bristol Palin’s real and imagined pregnancies have hit a new low: leaking an underage pornographic video to smear Carrie Prejean. By now, the media have ensured millions of people who never learned the names of Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett, or Anita Dunn have heard that the former Miss California once made a solo sex tape -- or, as the seasoned gatekeepers of reliable journalism often report it, simply a “sex tape.” Prejean told Sean Hannity...

A Roman Catholic bishop who oversaw an historic settlement with victims of past sexual abuse by priests in Nova Scotia has been charged with possessing and importing child pornography. Bishop Raymond Lahey of the Diocese of Antigonish was searched at the Ottawa airport as he re-entered Canada on Sept. 15. Officers found images “of concern” on his laptop, and seized it along with other media devices. He was released pending further investigation. After a forensic examination revealed child pornography, Ottawa police charged Bishop Lahey, 69, Friday and issued a warrant for his arrest. In a statement Saturday, Bishop Lahey said...

A state employee and a former leader with the SEIU Local 1000 union was sentenced today to 25 years in state prison after he pleaded no contest to child molestation, possession of child pornography and manufacturing child pornography Feliciano had been convicted of child molestation in 1993 and was a registered sex offender, the release states. In 2006, he was convicted for failing to register. Feliciano is a former president of one of SEIU's 50 district labor councils, which are located across the state.

PORTLAND, Ore. — The late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ half brother has been indicted on felony charges of possessing child pornography in Oregon. James Auchincloss was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury in Medford on 25 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse resulting from the alleged duplication and possession of child pornography.

Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael J. Folmar, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Filed Office, announced today that on Friday, August 14, 2009, the Honorable Kenneth A. Marra sentenced Mark Joseph Harvey, of Boynton Beach, FL, to forty (40) years’ imprisonment, to be followed by lifetime supervised release. On April 24, 2009, Harvey had pled guilty to all three counts of a federal Indictment charging him with distribution and possession of child pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252A(a)(2)(A) and 2252A(a)(5)(B). As...

PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WILLIAM DAVIS was sentenced today to 120 years in prison for producing, attempting to mail, and possessing child pornography, as well as possessing ammunition after having been convicted of a felony. The sentence was imposed in Manhattan federal court by United States District Judge RICHARD J. SULLIVAN. DAVIS was found guilty of all four charges against him on January 13, 2009, following a six-day jury trial before Judge SULLIVAN. According to the Indictment, the evidence at trial, and statements made at today's sentencing proceeding: DAVIS...

LOUISVILLE, KY—A federal grand jury in Louisville returned an indictment against Igor Nasonov, age 33, of Louisville, Kentucky, in Jefferson County, for distributing and possessing child pornography using his computer and a file sharing program. Nasonov was charged in a Criminal Complaint filed in United States District Court in Louisville, Kentucky, with distribution and possession of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney Candace G. Hill for the Western District of Kentucky announced today. Acting United States Attorney Candace G. Hill praised the efforts of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Louisville Metro Police Department, Crimes Against Children Unit (CACU)...

ALBANY, NY—Andrew T. Baxter, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General of the State of New York, Harry J. Corbitt, Superintendent, New York State Police (NYSP), John F. Pikus, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Albany Division; Lev J. Kubiak, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Investigation in Buffalo; and James Parmley, United States Marshal for the Northern District of New York, announced today that during this past week, 17 search warrants were executed and 11 individuals were arrested in the Northern...

A 43-year-old Sartell man was sentenced today in federal court to producing child pornography. On July 16 in St. Paul, United States District Court Judge Donovan Frank sentenced Dennis Michael Lemke to 360 months in prison and supervised release for life on one count of production of child pornography. Lemke was indicted on July 14, 2008, and pleaded guilty on Jan. 16. According to Lemke’s plea agreement, he admitted that on April 12, 2006, he did knowingly employ, use, persuade, induce, entice and coerce a minor who was then under the age of 12 to engage in sexually explicit conduct...

RICHMOND, VA—Walter Guilbeault, age 60, of Hopewell, Va., was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge James R. Spencer to 60 months incarceration for one count of Receipt of Child Pornography. Guilbeault pled guilty to the charge on March 5, 2009. Dana J. Boente, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, announced the sentence. According to court documents and information provided in open court in August 2007, Walter Guilbeault hosted a live meeting over the Internet in the course of his employment with a software company. At the conclusion of this “web meeting,” Guilbeault neglected to...

LUBBOCK, TX—U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings sentenced Danny Randell Lott, 46, of Abilene, Texas, to 108 months in prison, following Lott’s guilty plea in April to one count of interstate receipt of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. In addition, Judge Cummings ordered that Lott serve a life term of supervised release and register as a sex offender. On September 17, 2008, Lott was indicted in this case on four counts of receipt of child pornography, one count of receipt of child obscenity, and one count of possession of child...

COLUMBUS, OH—Ian Kimmel, 31, of Dublin pleaded guilty in United States District Court here to one count of possession of child pornography for having between 150 and 300 images on his personal computer depicting children under the age of 18 engaged in sexually explicit conduct. He faces a possible maximum sentence of ten years imprisonment and will be required to be under court supervision for at least five years after he serves any prison time. Federal law will also require him to register as a sex offender. Gregory G. Lockhart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio and...

CHICAGO—A McHenry County man was sentenced to more than 23 years in prison for enticing a 13-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity after he lured her to meet him at a park in Carol Stream in 2007, federal law enforcement officials announced today. Marcus Tyms, 25, formerly of Union, Ill., was sentenced to 280 months in federal prison, with 10 years of that sentence being imposed because Tyms was a registered sex-offender when he committed the crime. Tyms was sentenced July 2 by U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur in Federal Court in Chicago, said Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States...

CORPUS CHRISTI, TX—A Corpus Christi resident has been sentenced to prison for receiving and distributing child pornography, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Jesus Celeri Sancheznoriega, also known as Jesus Celeri Sanchez, 33, was sentenced to 109 months in federal prison to be followed by a ten-year-term of supervised release by United States District Judge Hayden Head following a late afternoon sentencing hearing held Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Sancheznoriega, who has been in custody without bond since his December 2008 arrest, was previously convicted of receiving and distributing child pornography. During yesterday's hearing, the court heard testimony from a...

COLUMBUS—Joseph P. Mascari, 39, Columbus, was sentenced in United States District Court here today to 46 months imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release for possessing approximately 150 images of child pornography on a computer in his apartment. Gregory G. Lockhart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Keith L. Bennett, and other agencies participating in the Central Ohio Cybercrimes Task Force announced the sentence handed down today by United States District Judge Algenon L. Marbley. Judge Marbley ordered Mascari, who had been on electronic monitoring since his plea, remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals...

BIRMINGHAM, AL—United States District Judge L. Scott Coogler sentenced JASON EARL ROY, 29, on June 23, 2009, to 180 months of imprisonment for receiving child pornography and 120 months for possessing child pornography with the sentences to be served concurrently. The time served is to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release. Roy will also be required to register as a sex offender. According to the plea agreement, Roy received and possessed images of child pornography using the Internet. Law enforcement recovered the images during the execution of a search warrant. His computer contained thousands of images of...

NEWARK—A Newton man who moderated a website devoted to child pornography and sex with children was sentenced today to 90 years in federal prison for his convictions on six counts of advertising child pornography, one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr., announced. Going into the sentencing today, Russell Christie, 51, faced a sentence of up to 30 years under the advisory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines. However, following testimony today from a woman, now 28, who for a decade was a victim in her childhood of severe...

VICTORIA, TX—Steven Thomas Brunsma, 60, of Corpus Christi, has been charged with possession, receipt and distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. A Victoria grand jury handed down the indictment on June 18, 2009. Brunsma is charged with eight counts of possessing, receiving and distributing child pornography, alleged to have occurred between June 2008 and January 2009 in the Corpus Christi Division of the Southern District of Texas. The child pornography consists of images of minors - largely boys ranging in age from 10 – 14 years, according to the criminal complaint - engaged in sexually...

PHILADELPHIA—Patrick Bunty, 56, of East Petersburg, PA, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for two counts of transportation of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Michael L. Levy. Bunty pleaded guilty to the charges in November 2008. Bunty was detained on January 27, 2006, by Customs Officials at the Philadelphia International Airport after returning to the United States from a business trip to England. Upon inspecting his baggage agents discovered a floppy disk that contained child pornography depicting unclothed prepubescent girls, posed in explicit positions and exhibiting their genitals. The...

Terrence Berg, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, announced that Matthew Mercer-Kinser, 23, of Oxford, Michigan, was sentenced yesterday in Federal District Court following his February 2009 guilty plea to charges of transportation of child pornography in interstate commerce. Mr. Berg was joined in the announcement by Andrew G. Arena, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Detroit Field Division. Mercer-Kinser was sentenced by the Honorable Robert H. Cleland to 151 months in federal prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release. According to court records, Mercer-Kinser amassed a collection of thousands...

MEMPHIS, TN—A federal grand jury returned two indictments charging two individuals with violations of federal criminal law involving the distribution, receipt possession, and production of child pornography announced Lawrence J. Laurenzi, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. The indictments resulted from investigations conducted by member agencies of the FBI Memphis Crimes Against Children Task Force. The individuals charged in the indictments are as follows: BRIAN D. McMACKIN, 27 year old, Milan, Tennessee resident: Indictment charging violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2251(a) [Production of Child Pornography]; Section 2252(a)(1) [Distribution of Child Pornography]; Section 2252(a)(2) [Receipt...

LEXINGTON, KY—A Scott County emergency management captain was arrested today pursuant to a federal criminal complaint that charges him with possessing images of child pornography. According to an affidavit submitted by a detective from the Georgetown Police Department, Eric Dwayne Westerfield, 35, from Georgetown, Ky. admitted he used the file sharing program LimeWire to download images of child pornography. The affidavit alleges that a DVD seized by authorities from Westerfield’s residence in March contained approximately eight images of children as young as 10 years old engaged in sexually explicit conduct. In addition, a Kentucky State Police (KSP) detective conducted a...

United States Attorney Julia C. Dudley announced today that Adam Stewart Young, age 34, of Raven, Virginia, appeared in court last week after being indicted by a federal Grand Jury sitting in Abingdon, Virginia on May 20, 2009. Young was charged in a one-count indictment with enticing and coercing a minor to engage in a sexually explicit act for the purpose of producing child pornography. These charges arose out of an investigation begun in May 2008. A jury trial has scheduled for July 20, 2009 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon. If...

GREENEVILLE, TN—Joseph Wayne Jennings, 53, of New Tazewell, Tennessee, was arrested on Wednesday, June 10, 2009, at the Holiday Inn located at 5435 Davy Crockett Parkway in Morristown, Tennessee. Jennings, an educator who is retired from the Claiborne County Board of Education, was a principal at Clairfield Elementary School and a teacher at the Renaissance School. After his retirement, he worked as a teacher for the Cherokee-Douglas Economic Authority and worked part-time for Toys R Us during the Christmas 2008 season. In a four-count complaint presented by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent Sandra Farrow, Jennings is charged with...

HOUSTON—William Arthur Doyle, III, 56, from Round Rock, Texas, has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for producing child pornography, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. U.S. District Judge Lynn N. Hughes imposed the prison term today in addition to 10 years for a distribution of child pornography conviction and attempting to entice a minor to engage in a sexual conduct by using a computer. The sentences are to be served concurrently for a total of 180 months. Doyle will also be placed on a lifetime term of supervised release during which he must register as a...

PLANO, TX—U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that a 37-year-old Mount Vernon, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas. ROBERT PETERSEN pleaded guilty on Jan. 5, 2009, to using a computer to obtain and possess child pornography and was sentenced on June 9th to 120 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Richard Schell. According to information presented in court, in 2007, Petersen distributed, received and possessed several video clips and visual depictions of child pornography using his Internet account. Petersen admitted to possessing at least six...

Andrew T. Baxter, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, and John F. Pikus, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Albany Division, announced today that DAVID DIMEO, age 35, of Rotterdam, New York, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy in Federal Court in Albany on his guilty plea to a one count Information charging him with the distribution of child pornography. DIMEO was sentenced to 87 months and ordered to serve a 15 year term of supervised release. He also was ordered to (1) have no unsupervised contact with minors; (2)...

Greenbelt, MD—Jonathan Clark, age 30, of Greenbelt, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to receiving child pornography, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. According to his plea agreement, Clark responded to a U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s undercover on-line operation in March of 2007, requesting a custom made movie of children having sex. Clark sent two emails detailing how two “girls,” ages eight and 11, were to be sexually assaulted for his movie. Clark also ordered a pre-made movie in which a seven year old girl was raped. Clark mailed his payment. While awaiting his requested videos,...

GREENBELT, MD—U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. sentenced Christopher Michael Holland, age 32, of Leonardtown, Maryland, today to 15 years in prison, followed by supervised release for life, for sexually exploiting a minor to produce child pornography, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. According to his plea agreement, on April 30, 2008 FBI agents found an image from Holland’s laptop computer that had been seized from his residence under a search warrant, depicting Holland engaged in sexually explicit conduct with a prepubescent female. The image was a picture taken by the laptop’s camera. Law...

Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced today the arrest of MARIO MESCHINO, age 41, of 24950 Madison in Plainfield, Illinois. MESCHINO was arrested yesterday morning at his residence, without incident, by Special Agents assigned to the Chicago FBI's Innocent Images Task Force (IITF). MESCHINO, who is employed by the First Student Transportation Company in Plainfield as a school bus driver, was charged in a criminal complaint filed yesterday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Chicago with one count of Distribution of Child Pornography, which is a felony offense. According...

United States Attorney Marty J. Jackley announced that a man charged with distribution of child pornography was sentenced on May 20, 2009, by US District Court Chief Judge Karen E. Schreier. Ryan Murphey, age 33, of Rapid City, was sentenced to 12 ½ years’ imprisonment, twenty years’ supervised release, and ordered to pay a special assessment of $100 to the Victim's Assistance Fund. Murphey was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 23, 2008. On February 27, 2009, he pled guilty to possessing thousands of images minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct (child porn) on his home computer. This...

On Monday, May 18, 2009, Mark David Keller, age 48, was arrested in La Mesa, California. Keller was arrested pursuant to a federal arrest warrant charging Keller with possession and transportation of child pornography. Keller was arrested at approximately 2:00 p.m. in the vicinity of 5500 Grossmont Center Drive. Keller was arrested by U.S. Marshal’s Deputies without incident. Investigation in this matter by the FBI’s Portland Field Office, determined between January of 1999 and September 2002, Mark David Keller was known to frequent areas of Portland, Oregon where homeless children were known to frequent. Keller allegedly would befriend young homeless...

PORTLAND, OR—A Newberg golf instructor and amateur photographer has been charged with a variety of federal child pornography offenses. Rodney Mead Pelling, 68, was arraigned this afternoon in U.S. District Court in Eugene on an indictment charging him with five counts of producing child pornography, four counts of receiving child pornography, and one count of possessing child pornography. He entered pleas of not guilty to each count, and was detained pending trial by U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin. Trial is set for July 21, 2009 before U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken. Each of the charges in the indictment is a...

VICTORIA, TX—Roselio Garcia, 54, of Port Lavaca, Texas, has been convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography, acting United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. At a hearing late yesterday, May 18, 2009, before United States District Court Judge John R. Rainey, Garcia pleaded guilty and admitted that on April 10, 2008 he possessed 49 pornographic images of known victims of child pornography as identified by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), 411 images of unknown victims of child pornography and five videos containing child pornography. Garcia also admitted to receiving an image of child pornography over...

DES MOINES—On May 18, 2009, Kent Merril Adamson, age 46, of Creston, Iowa, was sentenced to a term of 80 months' imprisonment for transmitting obscene material to a minor, announced United States Attorney Matthew G. Whitaker. United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner also ordered Adamson to serve a five year term of supervised release upon his release from prison and pay an assessment of $700 to the Crime Victim Fund. On October 29, 2008, Adamson pled guilty to seven counts of transmitting obscene material to a minor. The case arose out of an FBI undercover investigation conducted from...

Madison, WI—Erik C. Peterson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jason M. Pape, 37, of New Richmond, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb to 90 months in prison, without parole, for possessing child pornography. Following his release from prison, Pape will be on supervised release for the rest of his life. Pape pleaded guilty to the charge on March 6, 2009. On May 15, 2008, police officers from the New Richmond Police Department and Polk County Sheriff’s Department executed search warrants at Pape’s home in New Richmond and a residence...

Roger Lowe, 50, of Indianapolis, was sentenced today to five years in prison for receiving child pornography, Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana Timothy Morrison announced. Lowe pleaded guilty on May 8, 2009, in federal court in Indianapolis to one count of receipt of child pornography. In entering that plea, Lowe admitted that he downloaded images of children engaged in various sexual acts and participated in an e-mail group where he received videos of child pornography. This case arose from “Operation Brick Wall,” an FBI investigation that...

LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HAROLD LEE CHANG YEN, 37, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to five years in prison and lifetime supervised release for receiving and distributing child pornography. The sentence was imposed by United States District Judge NAOMI REICE BUCHWALD. YEN, of the Bronx, was arrested on January 11, 2007, by special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), and has remained detained since his arrest. According to the charges, court papers, and statements made by YEN during his guilty plea to Count...

NEWARK, NJ—Special Agent In Charge Weysan Dun announced the arrest of Thomas M. Elgert, age 66, of 71 Parkview Drive, Hillsdale, New Jersey, on two counts of attempted sexual exploitation of children (production of child pornography) and four counts of distribution of child pornography. Elgert is a self-employed consultant for an engineering company. According to the criminal complaint, this case began in Helena, Montana in early March of this year when an online undercover FBI agent assumed the identity of a known child pornographer already in custody. The agent, in the undercover role, was contacted by Elgert who requested pictures...

LUBBOCK, Texas—Rory Dale Worthan, 43, of Big Spring, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 78 months in prison to be followed by a 30-year term of supervised release, announced James T. Jacks, acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. Judge Cummings remanded Worthan to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service at the conclusion of the hearing. Worthan pled guilty in January to one count of possession of child pornography. He admitted that on February 8, 2007, he had an image of child pornography on his computer’s hard drive that he...

When John Kerry ran for President in 2004, an outraged group of men rose up against him - his own fellow Swift Boat sailors. Two hundred and fifty signed a letter stating that John Kerry - who had demonized his own fellow veterans as war criminals and who had repeatedly made claims that these eyewitnesses knew weren't true - was unfit for command. Against these 250 war veterans were 12 men who claimed that John Kerry was a man of honor. And now we learn that one of these dozen men is a child porn pedophile. FEDERAL COURT — War...

A teacher who worked at two Queens yeshivas and a Long Island elementary school was arrested after cops found child pornography on his home computer, cops said yesterday. Two online tipsters told state police that Timothy Holt, 44, of Baldwin, sent child pornography over the Internet last month. Cops seized the divorced father's computer and allegedly found nine videos and pictures depicting sexually explicit images of children. Holt, who pleaded not guilty to felony child-pornography raps on Friday, worked as a third-grade teacher's assistant at the Birch Elementary School in Merrick and taught Earth science at Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim and...

R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today that Mark Joseph Harvey of Boynton Beach, Florida entered a plea of guilty to all counts of a federal indictment charging him with distribution and possession of child pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252A(a)(2)(A) and 2252A(a)(5)(B). Harvey, a former resident of the Cape Cod, Massachusetts area, was arrested on February 4, 2009, on a Criminal Complaint charging that in November and December 2008, Harvey engaged in the distribution of...

LUBBOCK, TX—Jason Alan Seyffert, of Merkel, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 210 months in prison, announced acting U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Seyffert, 31, pled guilty on December 31, 2008, to one count of interstate receipt of child pornography. Judge Cummings also ordered that Seyffert register as a sex offender and serve a 35-year term of supervised release. He was immediately remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. According to documents filed in court, Seyffert admitted that he became interested in child pornography in 2006...

LUBBOCK, TX—In federal court in Lubbock on Friday, before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, Danny Randell Lott, 46, of Abilene, Texas, pled guilty to one count of interstate receipt of child pornography, announced acting U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Lott faces a statutory sentence of not less than five years, nor more than 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and a lifetime of supervised release. Judge Cummings ordered pre-sentence investigations with a sentencing date to be scheduled after that investigation is completed. Lott is in federal custody. On September 17, 2008, Lott...

A United Nations employee was caught with child pornography as he entered the country last week at Halifax Stanfield International Airport. Jose Antonio Ortega Osona, 40, a Spanish citizen who lives in New York, pleaded guilty Friday in Dartmouth provincial court to a Criminal Code charge of possessing child pornography and a Customs Act charge of smuggling prohibited goods. Associate Chief Judge Brian Gibson gave Mr. Ortega Osona double credit for the nine days he spent on remand and sentenced him to an additional 72 days at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Burnside. Customs officers searched Mr. Ortega...

NEWARK, NJ—Special Agent In Charge Weysan Dun announced the arrest of James L. Artfitch, age 51, of 240 South Main Street, Manville, New Jersey, on charges of possession of child pornography. Artfitch, a full-time mechanic at the Somerset County Vehicle Maintenance Department where he was arrested, is also employed as a part-time school bus driver. This case began when an ongoing investigation developed information that an email account registered to the defendant had been used to send images of child pornography over the internet. In March of 2008, investigators approached Artfitch at which time, he consented to a search of...