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Gulfport man guilty for possession of child pornography

Credit: U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Mississippi

Aug 15, 2024-  A Gulfport man pled guilty to possession of child pornography.

According to court documents, Roy Alexander Johnson, 31, was identified by federal agents as the user of accounts which contained visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. 

Johnson was identified after CyberTip reports from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children led to email accounts which the FBI was able to trace to Johnson. 

Examinations of the email accounts resulted in the findings of at least 84 videos of visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct to include minors who had not attained 12 years of age.

Johnson is scheduled to be sentenced on November 22, 2024, and faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.  A federal district judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

U.S. Attorney Todd W. Gee and Special Agent in Charge Robert Eikhoff of the Federal Bureau of Investigation made the announcement.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the assistance of investigators and forensic examiners of the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office.  

Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Jones is prosecuting the case.

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