Fayetteville, Arkansas – David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United
States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that
Brion Carey, age 35, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was sentenced on May 6, 2020,
to 180 months in federal prison without the possibly of parole followed by
twenty years of supervised release on two Counts of Transportation of Child
Pornography and one Count of Access the Internet with the Intent to View Child
Pornography. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks, United States District Judge,
presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in
Fayetteville.
According to court records, in November of 2018, Homeland
Security Investigations received information from the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children that an individual in Northwest Arkansas, later
identified as Carey, uploaded numerous images of child pornography to a Google
based email account. Further investigation revealed a second instance that the
same Google email account was utilized to send an email containing child
pornography. Carey was arrested in January of 2019. He was later indicted on
three child pornography related charges. In December of 2019, a jury found
Carey guilty of all charges.
This case was investigated by the Department of Homeland
Security and the Northwest Arkansas Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC)
Task Force. Assistant United States
Attorney Dustin Roberts and Assistant United States Attorney Carly Marshall
prosecuted the case for the United States.
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