News Releases and Statements

In late November 2012, HSI special agents noticed an advertisement posted on an Internet message board and determined that it was posted by Billy Ray Doyle. During ensuing email conversations between Doyle and an undercover special agent who posed as a 15-year-old boy, Doyle discussed sexual activity.

ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents determined that an Internet Protocol address used to receive child pornography belonged to former teacher Theodore Nusbaum.

After receipt of PRPD's referral, HSI special agents launched an investigation which revealed that Jose Donate-Mieles attempted to persuade an individual whom he believed to be a 13-14 year-old minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct.

Brandon Gillreath was sentenced to 35 years in prison. His wife Corine Motley, who was identified and arrested after ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) launched a campaign asking for the public's assistance, was sentenced to 29.5 years in prison.

Five individuals who possessed or distributed child pornography were charged and arrested during a month-long investigation in five Ocean County communities.

James Brown, 50, pleaded guilty in March following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with assistance from the FBI. Brown admitted possessing more than 600 images of child pornography on his laptop.

From approximately March through November 2011, Lance Howard Mayes received and distributed more than 600 sexually explicit depictions of minors, many of which involved pre-pubescent victims and at least one of which involved sadomasochistic conduct.

Victor Lopez, 47, of San Angelo, Texas, has been in federal custody since his arrest after HSI special agents executed a federal search warrant at his residence Jan. 23.

Carlos Ugarte, 31, was arrested at his place of residence after a search of his home computer revealed hundreds of child pornography images of prepubescent female minors.

Todd Stumpf and William Jewell were sentenced on felony charges in federal court Tuesday after pleading guilty for their participation in an international criminal network known as Dreamboard, which produced and disseminated depictions of graphic child sexual abuse via the Internet.

Christopher Anthony Quinn was sentenced to 72 months in prison and 15 years of supervised release. He will also forfeit the laptop computers and thumb drives he used to download, store and distribute child pornography.

Daniel Ricardo Barrientos had communicated via email, text and telephone conversations with an undercover officer who portrayed herself as a single mother of two minor daughters who was interested in having her children engage in sexual acts with an adult. Barrientos responded with his desire to perform various sexual acts with the girls.

Forensic analysis of his seized phone determined Heath Trahan had used it to take photographs of two minor children engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Examination of his computers also revealed approximately 500 images and 60 videos of child pornography, which he had in his possession but did not produce.

Kenneth Gaylord Stokes was indicted Wednesday in federal court for "sex tourism," and producing and distributing child pornography with five juvenile victims. Stokes also has a prior conviction for the statutory rape of a 7-year-old child in the state of Washington.

Austin J. Correll, 32, of Johnstown, Pa., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kim R. Gibson. Correll pleaded guilty to the charge Jan. 24.

Matthew Edward Shubart, of Yakima, Wash., admitted in a plea agreement to seeking and offering to exchange, distribute and receive child pornography over the Internet. According to prosecutors, Shubart was one of 109 members of an online child pornography trading group.

Aaron Charles Lustfeldt, 27, of Big Spring, Texas, faces a maximum statutory penalty of not less than five years or more than 20 years in federal prison.

"In late September or early October 2012, Brittanie S. Brattain and Deundrea R. Miller met female minor Jane Doe and agreed to take pictures of Jane Doe to post ads for ""dates"" on Backpage, a classified advertising website, which would be used for commercial sex acts."

John David Boyle was arrested by special agents with ICE's HSI after investigators determined that he was distributing child pornography over the Internet. Based on the evidence obtained in this case, authorities believe there may be unknown victims of child molestation by Boyle.

In late 2012, a minor female (Jane Doe) began a dating relationship with Jacob Ray Albarado and ran away from her home to his apartment in Big Spring. Albarado and Jane Doe agreed to produce a video depicting the two of them engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

In the first sexual extortion case ever prosecuted in the District of Puerto Rico, Jimmy Caraballo-Colon was arrested Tuesday in Caguas and charged with coercing a female minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child pornography.

Mark Robert Perry of West Fargo was sentenced on one count of possessing materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors. This case came to the attention of law enforcement on March 6, 2012, after authorities discovered that Perry was trading child pornography files online.

Milton Hugh Cashwell, a previously convicted sex offender, pleaded guilty to the charge March 29. During an undercover child pornography investigation in July 2012, an HSI special agent made contact with Cashwell after Cashwell offered to trade child pornography images online.

According to the criminal complaint, Leo De la Rosa-Meran, 45, a church pastor, engaged in sexually explicit telephone conversations with two 17-year-old female minors, both of whom he met through his church.