BALTIMORE — David C. Andrews, age 52, of Salisbury, pleaded guilty July 8 to distribution of child pornography.
The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Acting Special Agent in Charge Ivan Arvelo of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); and Worcester County Sheriff Reggie T. Mason, Sr.; Colonel William M. Pallozzi, Superintendent of the Maryland State Police; Wicomico County Sheriff Michael A. Lewis; and Wicomico County State’s Attorney Matthew Maciarello.
According to Andrews’ plea agreement, between May 28 and July 12, 2010, Andrews made files depicting children engaged in sexually explicit conduct available to others through a file sharing program installed on his computer. On July 17, 2010, a Wicomico County Sheriff’s detective working on undercover investigations of individuals trafficking child pornography through the use of file sharing programs was able to download child pornography being shared using the internet account at Andrews’ residence. A search warrant was executed at Andrews’ home and law enforcement located Andrews’ computer which contained 49 images and approximately 160 video segments of child pornography. Andrews admitted that he collected and shared child pornography over the internet, including the video downloaded by the detective. On October 12, 2011, Andrews pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in Wicomico County Circuit Court. The charge for possession of child pornography with intent to distribute was dropped.
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6 comments:
I hope and pray they got the names of the pervs he was selling them to.
4:16, he wasn't selling them to anyone. They were free to download by anyone that is using the same type of file sharing network (p2p, gnutella, BitTorrent etc). This stuff is very hard to track but theyll keep going after them.
Oops...my mistake. I can honestly say...I don't have your expertise. And I hope you are correct...that they will keep going after them.
Automatic death penalty for anyone found guilty of child pornography/child sex crimes.
Questions....anyone?
This was a Wicomico County Child Advocacy Case. I am not sure where this info came from but a Detective from the Maryland State Police assigned to that unit did the all the work. Funny how that unit never gets the acknowledgment it deserves. Great work Wicomico Child Advocacy and to the Trooper that did awesome work on the case.
The Wicomico C.A.C. averages 35 arrest a year. They just don't put out press releases for some reason. Maybe politicians do not like the public knowing just how bad it is in Wicomico.
God bless the C.A.C.!!! Thank you !!! A million times...thank you!!
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