Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBIâ€), announced the arrest today of FRANCIS HUGHES. HUGHES, 65, a pastor at a religious institution in Queens, New York, is charged with receiving images of child pornography via text from a 15-year-old minor in Westchester, New York, with whom Hughes was engaging in sexually explicit text communications. HUGHES was arrested this morning and will be presented later today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa Margaret Smith in...
