Crownsville Man Sentenced To Six Years In Federal Prison For Possession Of Child Pornography

CROWNSVILLE, Md. (WJZ) —  Officials announced that 36-year-old Jared Johnson was sentenced to six years in federal prison followed by 15 years of supervised merchandise for possession of kid pornography.

Johnson was besides ordered to wage $45,000 in restitution to the victims and that erstwhile helium registry arsenic a enactment offender pursuing his merchandise from prison.

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According to plea, from May 2020 to Aug. 2020, an internet unreality retention work supplier sent the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children 5 cyber tipline reports detailing hundreds of child pornography images uploaded to an relationship wrong its internet platform.

The relationship was linked with Johnson’s telephone fig and IP code successful Crownsville. Over the people of five reports, the internet retention supplier reported implicit 2,500 images of kid pornography uploaded to Johnson’s account.

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During a search of Johnson’s location connected July 24, 2020, Anne Arundel County detectives recovered Johnson’s compartment telephone and machine submerged underwater wrong the basement’s sump pump system.

A forensic analysis of the machine revealed that Johnson possessed implicit 12,000 images and videos of child pornography.

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This lawsuit was brought arsenic part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the increasing epidemic of child intersexual exploitation and abuse.

CBS Baltimore Staff