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Date: 01-19-2023
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United States of America v. Garrett Eric Weber
Case Number: 3:21-cr-00065
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Court: United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Duval County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office in Jacksonville
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Jacksonville, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempting to entice a 9-year-old child to produce videos of the child being sexually abused.
In 2020, Garrett Eric Weber, age 32, from Green Cove Springs, Flroida, using the name “BUBBLESXD_90,” uploaded a video depicting the sexual abuse of a child to a public chat room on a popular social media application (app). This upload was subsequently detected by law enforcement officers in Wisconsin. Further investigation by the FBI ultimately resulted in the identification of Weber. In March 2021, an undercover FBI agent, posing as the parent of a young child, engaged in online conversation with Weber using the same app. After some discussion and being told that the “child” was only 9 years old, Weber offered to serve as the “child’s” trainer by engaging in sexual activity with the “child.” Weber requested that the “parent” take a pornographic photo of the “child” for him, and provided specific instructions on how to accomplish this. Weber advised that he wanted the “parent” to film him as he sexually abused the “child,” and commented that the resulting video recording “would be the best [child pornography] vid ever.” Weber sent the “parent” several videos over the internet that depicted the sexual abuse of young children in order to demonstrate exactly how he planned to molest the “child” in person.
After his arrest on July 2, 2021, Weber admitted that he was in fact “BUBBLESXD_90,” that he had engaged in “horrible” online conversations with the “child’s” parent, and that he had distributed videos of very young children being sexually abused using the internet. Weber acknowledged that the “[e]vidence is staggeringly harsh against [him]” and that what he did was “criminal.”
This case was investigated by the Green Cove Springs Police Department, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the Winnebago County (Wisconsin) Sheriff’s Office, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Milwaukee and Jacksonville. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney D. Rodney Brown.
18:2251A.F SELLING OR BUYING OF CHILDREN
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Outcome: Imprisonment: 245 months; Supervised release: 144 months; Special Assessment: $100; Restitution: $45,500
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