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Two North Texas men were sentenced Friday to federal prison for possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas has announced.
Fort Worth resident John C. Pinkston, 40, was sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison and Peter M. Espinosa, 66, of Mineral Wells received a sentence of more than eight years from U.S. District Judge John McBryde.Espinosa, 66, of Mineral Wells, was sentenced to 97 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of receiving child pornography, Jacks announced.Espinosa admitted in to downloading numerous images and videos of child pornography that involved children between the ages of 8 and 14, according to Jacks’ office. Espinosa was arrested on May 20, 2009, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents after authorities executed a search warrant at his home.A forensic examination of his computer and related storage media revealed more than 100 images of child pornography and more than 10 video clips of child pornography, authorities said.Pinkston was sentence by McBryde to 78 months in prison on his guilty plea.He was arrested after ICE agents served a warrant at his home and agents eventually found more than 1000 images of child pornography on his home computer. Agents said Pinkston used a secretive process to download the images in which invisible links were hidden in blank spaces on the Web page.Nathaniel Jones, 817-390-7635
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