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Pine Bluff Man Sentenced to 24 Months in Prison for Despicable Internet Stalking

LITTLE ROCK—Christian Trey Ashcraft, 42, of Pine Bluff, the owner of Ashven photography and a former high school photographer in the Pine Bluff, Arkansas area, was sentenced to 24 months’ imprisonment for internet stalking.

On January 5, 2016, a federal Grand Jury returned an indictment charging Ashcraft with one count of lying to a federal agent and one count of internet stalking. On February 22, 2017, Ashcraft pleaded guilty to internet stalking. Ashcraft’s conduct spanned from January 2005 to December 2014.

Today, United States District Judge Kristine G. Baker sentenced Ashcraft to 24 months’ imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and a $1,000 fine. In sentencing Ashcraft, Judge Baker told Ashcraft that only one word could describe his almost decade-long actions—“despicable.” The sentence of 24 months was the top end of the advisory federal sentencing guideline range for this crime.

“Ashcraft’s sentence shows that people who commit cowardly acts behind a computer screen will be identified and prosecuted,” said Patrick C. Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. “I agree with the Court that Ashcraft’s conduct was despicable, and he is now being held accountable for using the internet to torment a young, innocent victim.”

Ashcraft admitted to using the e-mail account fun_e_gurl_2000@yahoo.com to send sexually explicit photographs of an adult female he was pretending to be—referred to in the Indictment as J.D.—to several individuals over a significant period of time. Agents then discovered the identity of J.D. and subsequently interviewed her.

J.D., now in her mid-twenties, disclosed that she met an individual who identified himself as “Chad Reynolds” on a website known as hotornot.com when she was 15-years-old. Between the times J.D. was 15- and 22-years-old, “Chad Reynolds” and J.D. engaged in an online relationship without J.D. ever seeing “Chad Reynolds” in person.

Ashcraft was sentenced on February 22, 2017, and will begin serving his prison sentence immediately.