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April 24, 2018
|Child Exploitation

Tyler McIntosh, 29, of Belvidere, Illinois, was sentenced in Boone County, Illinois to 56 years in state prison after he pleaded guilty to two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, and four counts of child pornography.

April 18, 2018
|Child Exploitation

Robert Krietzman was sentenced today to five years in prison and ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution for possession of child pornography following an investigation by HSI. 

April 16, 2018
|Child Exploitation

Jarratt A. Turner, 36, of Nashville, previously pleaded guilty to all counts of the indictment issued in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee March 20, 2017.

April 16, 2018
|Child Exploitation

James Ian McGlothlin, 41, of Portland, was sentenced Monday to 28 years in federal prison followed by a life term of supervised release for producing child pornography involving two very young children.

April 12, 2018
|Child Exploitation

Patrick Jake Nicholas Luera, 31, from Webster, Texas, pleaded guilty to the criminal charges on June 27, 2017. After he completes his prison sentence, Luera must also serve 15 years of supervised release, during which time he will have to comply with numerous requirements designed to restrict his access to children and the internet. He must also register as a sex offender.

April 5, 2018
|Child Exploitation
On March 12, 2015, HSI special agents arrested Gabriel Rodriguez-Pacheco, 33, of Yauco, for persuading, enticing and coercing two female minors, 16 and 17 years of age, to engage in sexually explicit conduct, namely the lascivious exhibition of their genital areas, for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct.
April 5, 2018
|Child Exploitation

John B. Alwood, 54, of Lewes, Delaware, was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison followed by 10 years of supervised release.

April 2, 2018
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking, Child Exploitation
The jury convicted Pierre Lagrone, aka “P” or “Pedro,” 33, on one count of conspiracy to sex traffic children, four counts of sex trafficking children, and one count of possessing child pornography.
March 29, 2018
|Child Exploitation

Shyniquah Lightner, 26, and Malik Hudson, 21, were charged by indictment in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to the aforementioned violations.

March 23, 2018
|Child Exploitation
HSI special agents assigned to the CEIG in San Juan arrested Reinaldo Rentas-Ortiz, 52, of Toa Baja, following an investigation that revealed that he allegedly attempted to produce child pornography and attempted to sexually entice and transport, with the intent to engage in criminal sexual conduct, what he thought was a 13-year-old female minor.
March 22, 2018
|Child Exploitation
Donald McCoy Jr., was arrested in October 2016, and has been in federal custody since that time. According to records filed in the case, McCoy came to the attention of HSI special agents in 2016, when an undercover agent using peer-to-peer file sharing software observed images of child rape being shared from a computer tied to an internet protocol address that traced back to McCoy’s residence.
March 21, 2018
|Child Exploitation
Nathan Clark Ward, 56, of Bountiful, Utah, admitted that in some of the videos he lifted the shirt of a minor and in others pulled down the minor’s pants.
March 20, 2018
|Child Exploitation

Carson Sibley, 26, from La Crosse, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Leonard T. Strand to 360 months in federal prison on one count of enticing a minor. There is no parole in the federal justice system.

March 14, 2018
|Child Exploitation

Following a referral by the Toa Alta Municipal Police, a woman of this locality and her partner were arrested Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents for production of child pornography. Both arrests were executed without incident.

March 13, 2018
|Child Exploitation

Kevin Ismael Lopez, 25, of Lubbock, Texas, has been in custody since his arrest in August 2017 on a related criminal complaint.

March 6, 2018
|Child Exploitation

Clark H. Henshaw, 37, of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Beth Phillips to 10 years in federal prison without parole.

March 5, 2018
|Child Exploitation

Timothy Paul Malone, 39, of River Oaks, Texas, pleaded guilty in November 2017 to two counts of sexually exploiting children, and one count of attempting to sexually exploit children.

March 5, 2018
|Child Exploitation

James Horton, 25, pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to the aforementioned violations on  Nov. 13, 2017.

February 28, 2018
|Child Exploitation
John Edward Burns, 45, from Kountze, Texas, pleaded guilty on Aug. 16, 2017, to enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity and was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison Feb. 28 by U.S. District Judge Marcia Crone.
February 26, 2018
|Child Exploitation

In addition to whatever prison sentence is imposed, John Bevel, 42, will also be on supervised release for a term to be determined by the court.  He must also to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.

February 22, 2018
|Child Exploitation

Douglas A. Willis, 54, of Naperville, Illinois, was sentenced Feb. 8 to 48 months federal in prison for possessing child pornography.  He must also serve a three-year term of supervised release.  

February 22, 2018
|Child Exploitation

John Porter, 63, of Marple Township, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 60 months incarceration followed by five years’ supervised release. Additionally, Porter is required to pay $54,500.00 in victim restitution, a $5,000.00 penalty assessment fee under the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act (JVTA), and a court assessment fee of $200.00.  Porter was required to begin his sentence at the close of his hearing.

February 21, 2018
|Child Exploitation

Kyle Dale Ritsema, 35, of Land O’Lakes, was arrested Feb. 13, 2018, by HSI special agents for production, possession, and distribution of child pornography.

February 21, 2018
|Child Exploitation

Richard Wolfe, 60, of Rochester, NY, is a full-time truck driver who also works as a part-time professional photographer and has taken pictures of minors.  According to the complaint, in March 2016, a Canadian law enforcement agency executed a search warrant involving a mobile chatting application. Between April 2, 2016, and April 7, 2016, a user with the account name “rickyraz15” used the application to share 331 images of child pornography.

February 21, 2018
|Child Exploitation

Terry LeClerc, 47, was sentenced in federal court to 360 months for the production, receipt, and possession of child pornography.   This case was initiated in 2016 when the Ann Arbor Police Department received a complaint that LeClerc had sexually assaulted a cognitively impaired individual. 

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