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Date: 06-17-2020
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Case Number: 2:19-cr-00062-DLB-CJS
Judge: David Bunning
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky (Kenton County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Covington, KY - The United States of America charged Gary Lee Long with receipt of child pornography.
Gary Lee Long, 59, from Brooksville, Kentukcy, was sentenced to 180 months in federal prisonfor receipt of child pornography.
According to his plea agreement, Long admitted that, on January 27, 2016, he reported to the Mason County Office of Probation, for his regular supervision visit. During that visit, his phone was searched and his probation officer found several images of child pornography. Long further admitted that he used Kik messenger to receive sexually explicit images of a minors.
Long entered a guilty plea in January 2020. Long was previously convicted in 2008, in the Bracken Circuit Court, of Rape in the Third Degree and Sodomy in the Third Degree.
Under federal law, Long must serve 85 percent of his prison sentence and will be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for ten years, following his release.
Robert M. Duncan, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; James Robert Brown, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the FBI, Louisville Field Division; and Chief Jared Muse, Maysville Police Department, jointly made the announcement.
The investigation was directed by the FBI and Maysville Police Department. The United States was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Wade Napier.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
18:2252(a)(2) - RECEIPT OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
(2)
Outcome: 06/16/2020 36 FINAL DECREE AND ORDER OF FORFEITURE as to Gary Lee Long. 1. That an agency of the United States, shall forthwith seize the forfeited property and dispose of it in accordance with the law; DIGITAL DEVICE: Black and silver Apple iPhone 4S, FCC ID# BCG-E2430A, Serial number: C8PN3MSTFML3. 2. That the above property be forfeited to the United States of America and no right, title or interest in the property shall exist in any other party. Signed by Judge David L. Bunning on 06/16/2020. (SLG)cc: COR,USM,USP (Entered: 06/16/2020)
06/16/2020 ORAL MOTION: United State's oral motion to dismiss Counts 1 and 3 of the Indictment is GRANTED. (SLG) (Entered: 06/16/2020)
06/16/2020 37 MINUTE ENTRY FOR SENTENCING as to Gary Lee Long held on 06/16/2020 before Judge David L. Bunning. Erik Eckes appeared as APPOINTED counsel of record. Defendants objection to the 2-level enhancement for having over 10 images under U.S.S.G. 2G2.2(b)(6) is moot per Fed. Crim. Rule 32(i)(3)(b) since it will not affect Defendant's sentencing, so the Court will not rule on the objection. Court's Advice of Right to Appeal provided to defendant and shall be filed in the record. Judgment shall be entered (See Judgment and Commitment). Defendant remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshal Service pending designation by the Bureau of Prisons.(Court Reporter Lisa Wiesman.) (SLG)cc: COR,USM,USP (Entered: 06/16/2020)
06/16/2020 38 Court Advice Re: Appeal by Gary Lee Long. (SLG) (Entered: 06/16/2020)
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