Jason Christopher Davis, Child Pornography, New Mexico 2018

ALBUQUERQUE – Jason Christopher Davis, 46, of Las Cruces, N.M., has pleaded guilty to a child pornography charge in federal court.

Davis, a former Supervisory U.S. Border Patrol Agent, entered the guilty plea under a plea agreement that recommends a 15-year prison sentence followed by 20 years of supervised release. He will also be required to register as a sex offender.

The charge stems from a May 2018 arrest, when Davis was accused of receiving child pornography in April 2018, in Dona Ana County, N.M. According to court documents, the Las Cruces Police Department executed a search warrant on an email account subscribed to Davis, which was used to upload a video file containing child pornography.

Homeland Security Investigations and the Las Cruces Police Department seized numerous items, including digital media containing child pornography, while executing a state search warrant at Davis’ residence. At the time of these events, Davis was employed as a Supervisory U.S. Border Patrol Agent.

During today’s proceedings, Davis pled guilty to a felony information charging him with production of a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. In entering the guilty plea, Davis admitted that on May 17, 2015, he produced a child pornography video of a five-year-old minor child and uploaded the video onto his laptop computer.

Davis has been in federal custody since his arrest and will remain detained pending a sentencing hearing, which has yet to be scheduled.

The case was investigated by the Las Cruces office of HSI, the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the Las Cruces Police Department, with assistance from the Office of Professional Responsibility of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Management Inquiry Team of the U.S. Border Patrol, the FBI, and the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Marisa A. Ong is prosecuting the case as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the DOJ to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

The case also was brought as a part of the New Mexico Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force’s mission, which is to locate, track, and capture Internet child sexual predators and Internet child pornographers in New Mexico.

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