(From the U. S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri)
A Kentucky truck driver and prior sex offender was indicted by a federal grand jury today for transporting child pornography.
Gregory Marshall, 57, of Paducah, Ky., was charged by a federal grand jury in Springfield, Mo., with one count of transporting child pornography. Today’s indictment replaces a federal criminal complaint that was filed against Marshall on June 21, 2018. Marshall was convicted of sodomy involving a 14-year-old victim in Kentucky in 1995.
According to an affidavit filed in support of the original criminal complaint, a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper stopped the tractor trailer Marshall was driving on U.S. Highway 60 in Wright County, Mo., on June 17, 2018. While searching the sleeper berth of the tractor, the affidavit says, the trooper discovered a laptop computer and an external hard drive that contained child pornography.
The charge contained in this indictment is simply an accusation, and not evidence of guilt. Evidence supporting the charge must be presented to a federal trial jury, whose duty is to determine guilt or innocence.
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney James J. Kelleher. It was investigated by the Missouri State Highway Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
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