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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...