Charleston, WV
U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin today announced that a Boone County man
was sentenced to eight years and one month in federal prison, followed
by 15 years of supervised release, for receiving
child pornography.
Daniel C. Runion, 27, of Seth, Boone County, West Virginia, previously
pleaded guilty in June. Runion admitted that on July 29, 2011, he used
his
computer and a
file sharing program to knowingly receive via the
Internet child pornography; that is,
images and
videos of
minors engaged
in
sexually explicit conduct, including actual or simulated
sexual
intercourse and the lascivious exhibition of the genitals and pubic area
of the
minors. Runion admitted that he received and transported the
images and
videos of the
minors while at a residence in Seth. Runion
further admitted that he knew the
images and
videos constituted
child
pornography.
The
investigation revealed that Runion knowingly possessed more than
600
images and
videos on his
computer depicting
minors engaged in
sexually explicit conduct. Some of the
images have been identified as
known
children.
Baltimore, MD
Brian Matthew Williams, age 28, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to receipt of
child pornography.
“This defendant egregiously violated the privacy of
young boys by
secretly recording them in
public restrooms, a crime that gives every
parent nightmares,” said U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein. “I am grateful
to the vigilant citizen who noticed the unusual behavior and
immediately called 911 and to the police and prosecutors who conducted
an urgent
investigation.”
According to his plea agreement, on May 6, 2012, Williams spent
nearly five hours at the Maryland House and Chesapeake House rest stops
on I-95, going in and out of the men’s restrooms filming several
minor
males, most of whom were pre-pubescent, as they used the urinals.
Williams positioned himself at an adjacent urinal and used his cellular
telephone to create 21
videos focused on the genitals of
minor males.
Two of the
videos depict two
minor males urinating and captures
images
of one of the pre-pubescent
minor male’s exposed penis. After capturing
the
images of the
minor males using the urinals, Williams would exit the
restroom and wait for the
minor males to walk out, then capture full
length
images of the
minor males, including their faces. After the
parents of one of the victims reported Williams’ suspicious behavior to
Maryland
State Police, he was arrested, charged in Cecil County, and
released on bond the same day.
Louisville, KY
According to the sentencing memorandum,
John Dennis Clark, III used a
Yahoo! Flicker account to upload 13,800 images of
child pornography
from January 2, 2007 to June 17, 2007.
Flickr users who discovered the
images complained to
Yahoo! about the presence of
child pornography
associated with the “audriusmackevicius” account.
Yahoo! submitted
13,800
images as a
cybertip report to
The National Center for Missing
& Exploited Children (NCMEC) on August 15, 2008.
NCMEC referred the
investigation to the
FBI. The
FBI traced the
Internet protocol to an
Insight account on Iola Road in Louisville, Kentucky. On January 7,
2009, the
FBI executed a
search warrant and seized Clark’s
laptop
computer and several items related to international travel. The Regional
Computer Forensic Laboratory (RCFL) conducted a
forensic examination of
Clark’s
laptop and discovered thousands of
images of
child pornography
consisting of mostly prepubescent boys engaged in
sexual activity. Seven
days later, Clark fled the United States from Chicago to Warsaw,
Poland. On or about February 27, 2009, during a check of international
border crossing records,
law enforcement discovered that Clark had fled
the United States for Eastern Europe in a failed attempt to avoid
prosecution.
Denver, CO
Peter Robert James, age 43, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was
sentenced by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Wiley Y. Daniel to serve
180 months (15 years) in federal prison for distribution of
child
pornography, the United States Department of Justice, the
Internet
Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC), the Colorado Springs
Police
Department, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland
Security Investigations (HSI) announced. Following his prison sentence,
James was ordered to spend 10 years on supervised release. Chief Judge
Daniel also ordered James to pay restitution totaling $5,000 to the two
victims of his crime, with each receiving $2,500. The defendant appeared
at the hearing free on bond, and was remanded into custody at the
conclusion of the sentencing hearing.
According to the stipulated facts contained in the plea agreement, on
August 10, 2010, a
police officer in the Child Exploitation Section of
the Sex Crimes Unit of the Toronto Police Service signed on to a
file-sharing program account of an individual who had been arrested by
the London
Police Service for possession of
child pornography. The
Toronto
police officer observed that a person using a specific user name
was online. The
officer browsed the 14 top-level directories that the
target was sharing. While browsing the directories and subdirectories,
the officer observed many
images of
child pornography. The
officer
captured thumbnails of more than 3,000 of these browsed
images. The
collection of files were both large and well-organized. The officer
determined that the username in question’s IP address was registered to
Comcast Cable with the user located in Colorado Springs. The officer
ultimately downloaded 82 files from the target, which included 71
images
of
child pornography and five
videos of
child pornography. The Toronto
Police Department referred the findings of their investigation to HSI,
who in turn referred the case to the Colorado Springs
Police Department.
Baltimore, MD
U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced
Joel Stevens, age 52,
of Baltimore, Maryland, today to four years in prison followed by a
lifetime of supervised release for possessing
child pornography. Judge
Garbis ordered that upon his release from prison, Stevens must register
as a
sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an
employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration
and Notification Act (SORNA).
The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District
of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and Special Agent in Charge Stephen E.
Vogt of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
According to the plea agreement, on October 8, 2010 Stevens offered
to share online digital
images of “nice young girls or under 12” to
another individual. Stevens discussed sharing files and provided the
passwords so that the individual could access Stevens’
child pornography
images and
videos. Stevens made 77 digital files available to the other
user, which contained visual depictions of
minors under the age of 12
engaging in
sexually explicit conduct.
Baltimore, MD
U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced
David Mitchell Rowe,
age 65, of Linthicum, Maryland, today to 12 years in prison followed by
a lifetime of supervised release for using a
cell phone to coerce a
minor to engage in
sexual activity. Judge Legg ordered that upon his
release from prison, Rowe must register as a
sex offender in the place
where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student,
under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District
of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Stephen E. Vogt
of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation; Anne Arundel County
Police Chief
Larry W. Tolliver; Chief James W. Johnson of the Baltimore County
Police Department; and Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott
Shellenberger.
According to his plea agreement, in June of 2011, Rowe was a member
of the swimming pool association at a hotel in Linthicum, Maryland,
where he befriended a
9-year-old girl. Over the course of a few days,
Rowe played games in the pool with the girl, wrestled with her, touched
her vagina over her bathing suit, and exposed his penis while she was
underwater.
New York, NY
Juan Carlos Escobar Gonzalez was sentenced today to 188 months of
imprisonment for
raping an undocumented 17-year-old El Salvadoran girl
in the back of a van at a rest stop in New Jersey while transporting her
from Texas to her family in New York. The sentence will run
consecutively to the 57-month sentence the defendant received in an
alien smuggling case in the Eastern District of Texas in May 2010. The
sentencing proceeding was held today before United States District Judge
Sterling Johnson, Jr., at the U.S. Courthouse in Brooklyn, New York.
The defendant was convicted after trial in November 2011 of interstate
transportation of a
minor with intent to engage in
illegal sexual
activity, interstate travel with intent to engage in
illicit sexual
conduct with a
minor, and alien smuggling.
Dayton, OH
An Ohio man accused of
raping a boy who
authorities say was brought to his home by the boy's adoptive father is
now facing
child pornography charges.
The Montgomery County
prosecutor said Monday that 32-year-old
Patrick Rieder (REE'-dur) has
been indicted on charges that include 49 counts of pandering
sexually
oriented material involving a
minor.
Prosecutor Mat Heck Jr.
says the charges come after a
search warrant was executed at Rieder's
home, and
child pornography was discovered on his
computers and other
electronic equipment.
Collinsville, IL
Federal investigators say a Collinsville, Ill. man has been charged for producing
child pornography to share on the
internet.
The federal indictment shows the alleged abuse
and production of child pornography was going on for more than two
years, and a child advocate said that gives her reason to believe other
children could have been in the same danger.
Martin Evanick, 31, who goes by Vlad, portrays
himself as a maniacal clown on his Facebook page, which says he’s a
drummer in the band “The Core of Your Nightmares.”
Federal investigators said, in April, Evanick
took inappropriate pictures of himself engaged in a sex act with a
child. According to a press release sent from the U.S. Attorney’s
office, the alleged violations happened in Madison County in June of
2010 and then again a year later in June of 2011.
A 27-year old Coral Springs man has been arrested and charged with possessing child pornography.
Justin Aaron was charged with dozens of counts.
After an investigation by the Broward
Sheriff’s Office, deputies went
to his home and found a
laptop and external hard drive with dozens of
child porn videos.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Aaron admitted to
possessing, downloading and saving numerous
child porn videos on his
computer. He also stated that he’s been downloading
child porn for
approximately two to three years, according to the affidavit.
