News Releases and Statements

David Simpkins, 25, has been charged with producing child pornography involving two young victims.

Phillip Amisano-Camillo admitted that in May 2012 he traveled from Washington State to Dallas to meet "John Doe," who he knew was a 14-year-old minor, for a sexual encounter. Camillo also admitted that before and during his time in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, he enticed John Doe to sneak out of his home and meet to engage in unlawful sexual acts.

In October, investigators discovered that Phillip Wayne Mathenia possessed hundreds of images of child pornography on several computers, as well as in books, magazines and films that appeared to be decades old. Mathenia was previously convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography in 2004.

Smith faces between five and 20 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography.

Robert Mucha pleaded guilty Wednesday to luring a teenage boy to Pennsylvania for sex and downloading and receiving child pornography on his home computer. Prior to his arrest, Mucha worked as a volunteer emergency medical technician in Andover. He also previously taught band and bugle corps to teenagers in Belleville and Lakewood.

HSI special agents and officers with the Brattleboro Police Department executed a federal search warrant Tuesday at the residence of David Schnyer, 77, and Ralph Schnyer, 36, a father and son.

On June 13, 2012, law enforcement officers acting in an undercover capacity posted an advertisement on Craigslist.org purporting to be a 13-year-old girl. Jeffrey Monroe Roy of Mobile, Alabama, responded to the posting.

According to court documents, Albert Rose, 55, of Hampton, admitted distributing images of child pornography via email using a computer located in his residence in February 2010. He also admitted to possessing more than 600 images of child pornography on his computer, which was seized from his residence in February 2012.

David Shelton was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Thursday after pleading guilty to receiving more than 1,200 child pornography images. The sentence follows an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Lake Charles Police Department.

Michael Brandan Griffith was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison Aug. 7 by U.S. District Judge Marcia Crone. Griffith had pleaded guilty April 9 to possessing material involving the sexual exploitation of children.

Alejandro Flores, 40, was repatriated to La Paz, Bolivia, Aug. 6 via commercial aircraft, and accompanied by two ERO enforcement officers.

In April, Albert Silva Hernandez, Jr., 44, of Las Vegas, was convicted of eight counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Clark County School District.

Larry James Kerfoot 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.

The photos are believed to have been taken sometime in April 2013.

Billy Wayne Johnson, 55, of Scurry, Texas, has been in custody since his arrest in February 2013 on a related federal criminal complaint. This sentencing was announced by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.

John W. Vandermeer, 62, of Albuquerque, was arrested Dec. 4, 2012 on a criminal complaint alleging he received and possessed child pornography in Bernalillo County, N.M., between January 2011 and November 2012.

ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents, working jointly with officers of the Puerto Rico Crimes Against Children Task Force (PRCACTF), arrested two individuals on child exploitation charges Tuesday in the municipalities of Arroyo and Mayaguez.

Between December 2011 and July 2012, Robert Marzola sexually abused a minor male at his home, and he produced images of himself and the minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Marzola saved the images on his laptop and told the boy not to tell anyone about their conduct, which Marzola described to the boy as a game.

Marcus Gabriel Henderson, 33, is charged with production and attempted production of child pornography, involving the defendant's secretly videotaping female victims in the bathrooms of his home.

Matthew Andrew Carter, 68, formerly of Brighton, Mich., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Joan A. Lenard of the Southern District of Florida. On Feb. 28, a jury found Carter guilty of five counts of traveling from the US to Haiti to engage in illicit sexual conduct with children and one count of attempting to do so.

Christopher Blackford, 28, of Charleston, S.C., was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison Monday before U.S. District Court Judge S. Maurice Hicks in the Western District of Louisiana. William Davis, 39, of Bristol, N.H., was sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison in addition to a lifetime of supervised release.

Under the terms of the contract, the components were required to be made in the United States.

Steven Metz, 41, faces a possible sentence of 10 years imprisonment, a fine of $250,000 and a term of supervised release of at least five years to life.

Thomas Joseph Barrett, a former federal employee with the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Office of Disability Adjudication and Review in Seattle, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to five years in prison for receipt of child pornography. He had accessed more than 3,500 images of child pornography at work and at home.