United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Gordon,
Georgia, man convicted of Receipt of Child Pornography was sentenced on March
9, 2018, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
Marshall Brown, age 27, formerly of Ellsworth Air Force
Base, was sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment, followed by 5 years of
supervised release, and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to the Federal
Crime Victims Fund.
Brown was one of ten men who were arrested and federally
indicted as a result of an undercover sex trafficking operation conducted
during the 2016 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, targeting persons seeking to pay to
have sex with underage girls or boys obtained through the Internet. The conviction stemmed from Brown
communicating with someone he believed to be a minor for the purpose of
engaging in sexual acts and sending pornographic images of himself to the
minor. After the execution of a search
warrant on Brown’s phone, law enforcement discovered pornographic images of a
separate15 year-old minor.
The undercover operation and arrests were a joint effort
between the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation, the Department of
Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Rapid City Police
Department, and the Pennington County Sheriff’s office. Assistant U.S. Attorney
Sarah Collins prosecuted the case.
Brown was immediately remanded to the custody of the U.S.
Marshals Service.
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