A Gulfport man faces up to 20 years in prison for possessing child pornography.
Roy Alexander Johnson, 31, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to having the illicit material. According to court documents, Johnson was identified by federal agents as the user of accounts containing visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
He was further identified after CyberTip reports from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children led to email accounts that the FBI was able to trace to Johnson. Examinations of the email accounts resulted in the findings of at least 84 videos of visual depictions of minors, some under the age of 12, involved in sexual acts.
Johnson is scheduled to be sentenced on November 22. A federal district judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the assistance of investigators and forensic examiners of the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Jones is prosecuting the case.
