NPS Arrest on Child Sex Exploitation Charges at Yellowstone....

Imagine having to be so immersed in this stuff to the degree that certain images are so familiar that you recognize them......

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Yellowstone National Park (ID,MT,WY)
Concession Employee Arrested On Child Sex Exploitation Charges

On June 18th, Old Faithful rangers investigated a report they’d received of pornographic images of children on a laptop computer. They seized the computer and identified the owner as a concession employee. NPS agents based in Yellowstone and Denver began an investigation and a search warrant for the computer was obtained and served. On July 23rd, Yellowstone agents and the park’s assistant U.S. attorney reviewed a report prepared by the Denver special agent. The report showed that the computer contained approximately 800 sexually explicit images of children, with about 30 of them apparently of children under the age of 13 in sexually explicit positions and in sexual contact with adults. The NPS case agent recognized some of the images from his previous cases as being depictions of actual children and not computer enhanced, created or morphed images. On August 2nd, agents received a report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that revealed that 47 of the images of children depicted on the computer were of known children identified in previous cases. The file attributes of at least 20 of the sexually explicit images of children had file access dates in June and July of 2007, which showed that the files were viewed during the time when the owner was employed at Old Faithful and in Yellowstone National Park. Because the computer owner and suspect was a foreign national and working in the United States on a temporary visa, NPS agents filed a criminal complaint for violations of 18 USC 2252 (knowing possession of material depicting sexual exploitation of minors) and obtained and entered into NCIC a felony arrest warrant for the man. On August 5th, Old Faithul rangers located and arrested him without incident. After his initial appearance and detention hearing before the US magistrate in Yellowstone, he was ordered held and remanded to the custody of the US Marshal. On September 19th, a federal grand jury in Cheyenne issued a true bill and indicted the man. On September 27th, he appeared before the federal district judge in Cheyenne and was ordered detained pending trial or plea agreement. [Submitted by Brian Smith, Special Agent in Charge, Intermountain Region]
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