KAUFMAN, Texas — A Kaufman, Texas, man was sentenced to seven years in prison following his guilty plea in federal court to one count of transporting and shipping child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
KAUFMAN, Texas — A Kaufman, Texas, man was sentenced to seven years in prison following his guilty plea in federal court to one count of transporting and shipping child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
32-year-old Mitchell Weston Miller was originally arrested in February 2016 after the case, which originated in the Dallas Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit, was turned over to Kaufman Police Department detectives.
Police executed a search warrant at his Rand Road home in Kaufman — seizing several electronic devices.
At the time, Miller was charged with one count of possession with intent to distribute child pornography and was later indicted by a Kaufman County grand jury with 10 counts of possession with intent to distribute child pornography.
In August 2016, Miller was transferred to federal custody on a federal contract and remained jailed at the Kaufman County Jail.
Yesterday, Miller was sentenced in federal court by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to serve 84 months in federal prison after he pled guilty to one count of transporting and shipping child pornography.
The Kaufman Police Department will continue to pursue the 10 Kaufman County indictments against Miller, Captain Ed Black told inForney.com. Miller was scheduled for a plea negotiation conference last week but that hearing was reset.
“According to the factual resume filed in the case, on November 23, 2015, Miller used his email account and the Internet to send and transmit files of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct,” stated Parker.
“On December 22, 2015, Miller’s Google mail (Gmail) account uploaded eight images of child pornography,” continued Parker. “A search warrant for this same Gmail account showed the email account was used to trade child pornography and approximately fifty-five emails contained attachments of child pornography.”
Miller’s cell phone also contained child pornography.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted the federal investigation which was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Shane Read.
