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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Actor pleads guilty to possessing large collection of child pornography found on his home computer

LOS ANGELES – Actor Mark Wayne Salling pleaded guilty Monday to a federal offense of possessing child pornography and specifically admitted that he possessed approximately 25,000 images of children engaged in sexual conduct.

Salling, 35, of Shadow Hills, Calif., who is best known for his role as Noah Puckerman on the television show “Glee,” pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor.

The case against Salling is the product of an investigation by the Los Angeles Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, which includes officers with the Los Angeles Police Department and special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The Beverly Hills Police Department also provided substantial assistance.

In a plea agreement filed in October in United States District Court, Salling acknowledged that he downloaded the images from the internet in 2015 and used software designed to conceal his activity. The collection was discovered on a laptop computer, a hard drive, and a USB flash drive after Salling showed some of the images to a girlfriend, who reported the matter to local enforcement.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks like he's about to have some glee smacked out of him.

Anonymous said...

1003 - Ewwwwwwwwwwww!

Cracktherack said...

I would hate to go to prison with the last name puckerman

Anonymous said...

He will be someone's date at the prison Christmas dance!!!

Anonymous said...

I'm sure he won't be just sitting around in prison, in fact, he won't be able to sit for a long time!

Anonymous said...

If this is the Wendell Travers that we are talking about, you won't see it on the news. Surprised it was posted by the State Police. They usually sweep this stuff under the rug when it's one of their own or a government official in local office.
I know when I worked at CPD back in the eighties, the Mayor of Cambridge and Ocean City used to get arrested from time to time for drinking and driving and nothing was every done. Children of government officials or well know people in the community were also given a break. They would ask the press of not report it, and as a courtesy, they wouldn't.