Description: Greensboro, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with knowingly receiving child pornography after multiple tips to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) led to his arrest.

Timothy James Bryant, 27, was identified by agents from the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (NSCBI), after a NCMEC tip revealed that a Twitter user in Durham was suspected of uploading images of suspected child pornography to the platform in 2019 and 2020. In October 2020, the NCSBI executed a search warrant at Bryant’s residence where they located several items that contained child pornography. Bryant was arrested later that day on state charges without incident.

Subsequent interviews and search warrants revealed Bryant to be in possession of multiple devices containing over twenty-five thousand images and videos of child pornography. During the pendency of the state case, NCMEC received a new tip from Snapchat regarding suspected inappropriate conduct by a user that the NCSBI connected to Bryant in March 2021. A federal search warrant for Bryant’s phone revealed that his device contained additional videos of child pornography. At the time of his arrest, Bryant had been previously convicted of two counts of Third Degree Sexual Exploitation of a Minor in Durham County Superior Court in 2014.

He was charged by Indictment in the Middle District of North Carolina in April 2021 with one count of knowingly receiving and attempting to receive child pornography and one count of knowingly possessing child pornography. In September 2021, Bryant pled guilty to one count of receiving child pornography. In addition to his imprisonment and supervised release, Bryant was ordered to pay $133,500 in restitution to 27 victims.

18:2252A(a)(2)(A) and (b)(1) Knowingly receive and attempt to receive any child pornography
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Outcome: 07/22/2022 Minute Entry for proceedings held before JUDGE CATHERINE C. EAGLES:Sentencing hearing as to TIMOTHY JAMES BRYANT held on 7/22/2022 on Count 1. Count 2 dismissed. The Court adopts the Presentence Report without change. AUSA K.P. Kennedy Gates appeared on behalf of the Government. Attorney Matthew Faucette appeared as counsel for the defendant. Defendant appeared in cusotdy. (Court Reporter Briana Bell.) (Winchester, Robin) (Entered: 07/22/2022)
07/22/2022 41 STIPULATION regarding Restitution (Winchester, Robin) (Entered: 07/22/2022)
Defendant was sentenced to 360 months in prison.

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