JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales sentenced a 26-year-old Jacksonville man to more than 10 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography over the Internet.
Zaccheus Crawford was sentenced to 125 months in federal prison followed by a 15-year term of supervised release for receiving child pornography over the Internet, according to a news release from United States Attorney Robert O'Neill.
Crawford had already plead guilty to the charge on September 14, 2011.
Crawford was arrested after an undercover FBI agent in Phoenix, Arizona, signed into the internet file sharing program "Slidenskate." The agent saw Crawford had shared directories containing child pornography.
The undercover agent browsed publicly shared directories for Crawford's username and found multiple images depicting child pornography.
The same FBI agent later logged into the same Internet file sharing program and found Crawford logged in again. This time the agent downloaded 168 image files and 16 video files directly from two of Crawford's accounts. O'Neill said many of these images and videos depicted child pornography.
Once agents determined Crawford was in Jacksonville, a federal search warrant was executed at his home where agents seized Crawford's desktop computer.
While he was being interviewed by federal authorities, Crawford admitted he had downloaded images of child pornography and that he "had a feeling" that he "would be in jail for a few years."
When agents confronted Crawford with images depicting child pornography that agents had downloaded from his computer, Crawford admitted that he had received those files.
Once forensic analysis was done on Crawford's computer it was learned that he had two internal hard drives containing approximately 205,000 image files, O'Neill said. At least 500 of these images and at least 100 videos depicted minors engaging in sexually explicit activities.
Both the Jacksonville and Phoenix field offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the case against Crawford.
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