Acting Special Agent in Charge (A/SAC) Ricky Maxwell announces, on behalf of the Northwest Georgia Crimes Against Children Task Force, the following arrest:
Vikul Patel, 35 years of age, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was arrested without incident yesterday afternoon, Sunday, September 2, 2012, in Rossville, Georgia, by the FBI-led Safe Child Task Force agents and officers after he traveled there to meet a minor child for purposes of having sex.
Patel, a doctor of internal medicine, came to the attention of law enforcement over the Internet when he began a series of “chats” with undercover agents/officers regarding his desire to have sex with a minor child.
Patel was transported and processed at the Walker County Detention Center on state charges of attempted child molestation and violation of the Computer Pornography Act.
Albany, NY
The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Matthew Jayne, 44, of Manchester Village, Vermont, was arrested yesterday on a charge of possession of child pornography. Yesterday, Jayne had an initial appearance on a criminal complaint charging him with committing that offense on August 30, 2012. Today, the Hon. John M. Conroy, United States Magistrate Judge, held a hearing on the government’s motion for pre-trial detention of Jayne. Judge Conroy denied the motion and released Jayne on conditions, including that he refrain from unsupervised contact with children and submit to monitoring of his computer use.
Court records indicate that Jayne downloaded and distributed child pornography using Internet file sharing software. Records further indicate that a forensic preview of Jayne’s laptop computer revealed dozens of images of child pornography. Jayne was arrested following the execution of a search warrant at his Manchester Village home on August 30, 2012.
Anchorage, AK
U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Sidney Lamar Greene, 41, was sentenced to 144 months in prison for attempted child sex trafficking and for conspiring to defraud the government. Greene was also ordered to pay $127,322.39 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service and will serve 84 months of supervised release after completing his term of incarceration.
Co-defendant Keyana “Koko” Marshall was sentenced in November 2011, to 30 months in prison, to be followed by 36 months of supervised release, for conspiring to commit sex trafficking of children by force, fraud, and coercion. Co-defendant Rand Hooks was sentenced in February 2012 to 12 months in prison, to be followed by 36 months of supervised release, for promoting prostitution.
The case against Sabil Mumin Mujahid was dismissed in October 2011, in light of his 50-year combined sentence in two other federal cases, which related to him assaulting other prison inmates while being incarcerated for a weapons conviction.
In December 2009, these four defendants were indicted in a 41-count superseding indictment, which included charges of sex trafficking of children and women by force, promoting prostitution, possession of child pornography, sexual exploitation of a child, tampering with a victim, conspiring to defraud the government by filing false tax returns, and identity theft. Not all four defendants were named in each count.
Atlanta, GA
Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Brian D. Lamkin announces, on behalf of the Northwest Georgia Crimes Against Children Task Force, the following arrest:
Daniel Austin, 56 years old, of Acworth, Georgia, was arrested without incident this afternoon, Friday, August 31, 2012, in Ringgold, Georgia, by the FBI-led Safe Child Task Force agents and officers after he traveled there to meet a minor child for purposes of having sex.
Austin came to the attention of law enforcement over the Internet, wherein he began a series of “chats” with undercover agents/officers regarding his desire to have sex with a minor child.
Austin was transported and processed at the Catoosa County Detention Center on state charges of attempted child molestation and violation of the Computer Pornography Act.
Kangaroo Flat, Australia
A 38-year-old Kangaroo Flat man has been arrested and charged in an international child pornography sting.
Four children being exploited to produce pornography in the US were rescued as a result of the police crackdown in Victoria.
A four-week operation uncovered about 25,000 images and led to 21 arrests.
Biddeford, ME
A Maine pastor who works with the homeless has been charged by state police with possessing child pornography.
Pastor
James Napier is associated with New Beginnings Christian Mission in
Biddeford. He was arrested at his home in Alfred on Saturday on a charge
of possession of sexually explicit material.
Police
said a search of Napier's computer found more than 100 images of child
porn. The bail conditions for the 60-year-old Napier call for no contact
with anyone under the age of 18 and no Internet use.
Albuquerque, NM
This morning, a federal judge sentenced Jeffrey Neal Jackson to a 10-year term of imprisonment to be followed by 10 years of supervised release for his child sexual exploitation conviction. Jackson will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
Jackson, 44, was a military recruiter employed by the National Guard and stationed in Lubbock, Texas, when he was arrested on child sexual exploitation charges on November 28, 2011. He has been in federal custody since that time. On April 11, 2012, Jackson pled guilty to count one of a two-count indictment charging him with coercion and enticement of a minor. Under the terms of Jackson’s plea agreement, count two of the indictment—charging Jackson with travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct—will be dismissed.
According to the indictment, between October 3, 2011 and October 24, 2011, Jackson used a computer and cellular phone to entice an individual whom he believed to be under 18 years of age to engage in sexual activity. Jackson then traveled from Texas to Curry County, New Mexico, for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity with a person whom he believed to be a 15-year-old girl.
Wichita, KS
A Topeka man has been sentenced to 72 months in federal prison for possessing and distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
Jacob Lee Grigsby, 22, Topeka, Kansas, pleaded guilty to one count of distributing child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography. At sentencing, prosecutors told the judge that in 2010 an FBI agent in Virginia used the Internet to download child pornography from Grigbsy’s computer. Grigbsy obtained the child pornography using Limewire, a peer-to-peer file sharing program. Investigators executed a search warrant at Grigsby’s home in Topeka. They found images of child pornography with victims as young as infants.
Buffalo, NY
U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Paul Hackett, 45, of Buffalo, New York, who was convicted of production of child pornography and possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and lifetime supervised release by U.S. District Chief Judge William M. Skretny.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron J. Mango, who handled the case, stated between October 1998 and August 2001, the defendant knowingly enticed and coerced a minor female victim to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual depictions of such conduct.
Specifically, while Hackett was using the victim to engage in sexually explicit conduct, he took approximately 16 Polaroid photographs of the victim. Those pictures were subsequently found in the defendant’s residence in October 2011 and depict the victim engaging in sexually explicit conduct. During the relevant time period, the victim ranged in age from 15 to 17 years old.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
Baltimore, MD
John Andrew Blaes, age 49, of Parkville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to produce child pornography and to transporting a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct.
The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Acting Special Agent in Charge Timothy P. Groh of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Special Agent in Charge William Winter of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE); Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); and Chief James W. Johnson of the Baltimore County Police Department.
According to the plea agreement, at some time prior to March 2010, Blaes and his co-conspirator met online and became involved in a sexual relationship involving bondage, discipline, sadism, and masochism (BDSM), with Blaes as the “master.” The co-conspirator subsequently moved into Blaes’ home in Parkville. During this time, including in July 2011, Blaes used the Internet to contact other women and girls to recruit them into the BDSM lifestyle.
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