Anthony Michael Mileo, Child Pornography, Maryland 2020

Greenbelt, Maryland – A former Maryland law enforcement officer has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for possession of child pornography.

A U.S. District Court judge handed down the sentence to Anthony Michael Mileo, a 56-year-old former Corporal with the Maryland National Capital Park Police Department and K-9 handler, after he pleaded guilty to the charges.

According to the plea agreement, Mileo possessed over a dozen video files documenting child sexual abuse, which were uploaded to a document storage application account on August 7, 2019. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) referred the case to the Maryland State Police (MSP) Computer Crimes Unit, which led to the investigation.

Mileo’s email address was associated with the document storage application, and investigators obtained a search warrant for the contents of his email account, revealing approximately 71 video files depicting child sexual abuse, including prepubescent minors and images depicting children in bondage being sexually abused.

The investigation also revealed that Mileo had uploaded the document storage application onto his personal iPhone, allowing him to access the images of child sexual abuse from any device with an internet connection.

Mileo’s sentencing was announced by U.S. Attorney Erek L. Barron, Special Agent in Charge James R. Mancuso of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore, Colonel Woodrow W. Jones III, Superintendent of the Maryland State Police, and Calvert County State’s Attorney Robert Harvey.

Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched by the Department of Justice in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse, brought this case.

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