Las Cruces Man Sentenced to 37 Months in Federal Prison for Possessing Child Pornography
ALBUQUERQUE – In a disturbing case of child exploitation, Juan C. Rodriguez, 36, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced in Las Cruces federal court this morning for his child pornography conviction.
Rodriguez was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison to be followed by seven years of supervised release. He will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
The investigation into Rodriguez’s activities began on April 23, 2014, when the FBI arrested him on an indictment charging him with possession of matter containing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
The indictment alleged that Rodriguez possessed child pornography in Doña Ana County, N.M., between June 2013 and August 2013. On August 12, 2014, Rodriguez pled guilty to the indictment and admitted that between June 6, 2013, and August 22, 2013, he used a computer and computer-related media to download child pornography using a peer-to-peer network.
Rodriguez acknowledged that law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at his residence on August 22, 2013, and seized his computer and computer-related media. A forensic examination of those items uncovered approximately 30 still images and five videos consistent with child pornography.
The case was investigated by the Las Cruces office of the FBI and the Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory with assistance from the Denver office of the FBI. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander B. Shapiro of the U.S. Attorney’s Las Cruces Branch Office.
This case was prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the U.S. Attorney’s Offices to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.
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