Date: 01-31-2020

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Case Number: 2:18-cr-00165-JNL

Judge: Joseph N. LaPlante

Court: United States District Court for the District of Maine (Cumberland County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: Graig M. Wolff

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Description: Portland, ME - The United States of America charged George Royle with possession of child porn.

A former Portland resident was convicted yesterday of accessing with intent to view child pornography following a three-day jury trial, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.

According to evidence presented at trial, in July 2015, agents with U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) executed a search warrant at the Portland home of George Royle V, 45. Agents seized a laptop computer under the warrant. A forensic analysis of the laptop showed that Royle had been accessing internet websites containing child pornography images with the intent to view them. He also had been using peer-to-peer file-sharing software to seek out child pornography.

Royle faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

HSI and the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit investigated the case.

Charge:

POSSESSION OF/ACCESS WITH INTENT TO VIEW CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, 18:2252A(a)(5)(B) and (b)(2) and 2256(8)(A)
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Outcome: Guilty

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