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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...