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Date: 01-06-2023
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United States of America v. Eric S. Crews
Case Number: 4:22-cr-00031
Judge: Rodney W. Sippel
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (St. Louis County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: St. Louis, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with downloading and sharing child pornography via a variety of social media apps.
Eric S. Crews, age 38, used social media, including Kik Messenger, Viber, WhatsApp and TamTam, to send and receive child pornography. When Crews uploaded 14 files containing child sexual abuse material to Kik Messenger on Nov. 11, 2020 and shared them with at least one other Kik user, it triggered an alert to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, according to Crews’ plea agreement. After a court-approved search of Crews’ home by St. Charles County police on June 15, 2021, investigators found at least 5,400 images and 610 videos containing child pornography on Crews’ Apple iPhone.
Crews pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in October to a charge of possession of child pornography.
The St. Charles County Cyber Crime Task Force and the FBI investigated this case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jillian Anderson prosecuted the case.
ACTIVITIES RE MATERIAL CONSTITUTING/CONTAINING CHILD PORNO
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Outcome: Defendant plead guilty to count one of a one-count Superseding Information on October 6, 2022 and is committed to the US-BOP for a term of 54 months. Recommendations made to the US-BOP. Once released, defendant placed on supervised release for LIFE with mandatory, standard and special conditions. $100.00 special assessment due immediately. Defendant to self-surrender at the designated US-BOP as notified by the USMS. See judgment for full details.
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