Brian Powell, Producing Child Pornography, New Hampshire 2015

A Salem man has pleaded guilty to producing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.

Brian Powell, 33, of Salem, New Hampshire, pled guilty on Monday in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to producing child pornography.

In 2015, an Electronic Service Provider (ESP) alerted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) that an individual had uploaded a child pornography file to the ESP’s website. That file was ultimately traced back to the defendant’s residence in Salem, New Hampshire.

The Salem Police Department obtained a search warrant for the residence and seized the defendant’s personal computer. A subsequent analysis of that computer by a detective with the Rochester, New Hampshire Police Department – also a member of the New Hampshire Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force – revealed a collection of child pornography.

Powell is scheduled to be sentenced in August 2016. He faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison, at least 5 years of supervised release, and a fine of up to $250,000.

The investigation in this case was led by the Salem, New Hampshire Police Department with the assistance of the New Hampshire Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, the Police Departments of Rochester and Derry, New Hampshire, and Homeland Security Investigations Manchester (HSI Manchester).

Assistant United States Attorney Nick Abramson is prosecuting the case.

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