Saturday, July 8, 2017

New York investigation leads to conviction of Springfield man on child pornography charge

(From the U. S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri)

A Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet.

Danny Lee Dumas, 43, of Springfield, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark to 20 years in federal prison without parole. The court also sentenced Dumas to spend the rest of his life on supervised release following incarceration.

Dumas pleaded guilty on Nov. 9, 2016. Dumas admitted that he received and distributed child pornography between Jan. 1 and April 9, 2015.

An investigation began in Suffolk County, New York, when another person told law enforcement officers that he e-mailed images of child pornography to Dumas. Law enforcement officers also received two CyberTips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children involving online chats with another person, to whom Dumas sent images of child pornography.

Local law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Dumas’s residence on April 9, 2015, and seized his computer and other digital storage devices.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney James J. Kelleher. It was investigated by the FBI, the Southwest Missouri Cybercrimes Task Force and the Suffolk County, N.Y., Police Department.

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