GREENEVILLE, Tenn. – On October 11, 2017, Gregg Paul Smith,
48, of Kingsport, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer,
U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 151 months in federal prison as a result of
his July 2017 guilty plea to receipt of child pornography and possession of
stolen firearms. Upon his release from prison, he will be supervised by U.S.
Probation for 15 years. There is no parole in the federal system.
The investigation of Smith was initiated when investigators
with the Knoxville Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task
Force (ICAC) obtained child pornography images and videos uploaded through an
internet file sharing service from an IP address associated with his address. A
search warrant was executed at the residence and officers from the Kingsport
Police Department and Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office seized computer
equipment, which was found to contain thousands of images and videos containing
child pornography. During the search, officers also found multiple firearms
that were stolen from a firearms dealership where Smith was employed.
Agencies involved in this investigation included the
Sullivan County Sheriff Department, Kingsport Police Department, Knoxville
Police Department ICAC Task Force, and Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and
Explosives. J. Gregory Bowman, Assistant U.S. Attorney represented the United
States.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood
(PSC), a Department initiative launched in 2006 that aims to combat the
proliferation of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation crimes against
children. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Department of Justice Criminal
Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, PSC Marshals federal,
state, tribal and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute
individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and
rescue victims. For more information visit ProjectSafeChildhood.gov.
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