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Date: 09-08-2020
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United States of America v. Marco Barraza
Case Number: 6:17-cr-03090-RK
Judge: Roseann Ketchmark
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri (Greene County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney's Office
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Springfield, MO - The United States of America charged Marco Barraza,age 28, with possession of child pornography.
On Oct. 29, 2019, Barraza was found guilty at trial of one count of receiving and distributing child pornography.
Law enforcement investigators received two reports from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that Barraza had transmitted images of child pornography through chat sessions on his Tumblr account in September 2016. Officers executed a search warrant at Barraza’s residence on March 16, 2017, and seized numerous computer-related property, including three cell phones and two hard drives that had been removed from laptop computers. Those devices contained approximately 600 images of child pornography.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney James J. Kelleher and Supervisory Assistant U.S. Attorney Randall D. Eggert. It was investigated by the Southwest Missouri Cybercrimes Task Force, Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Springfield, Mo., Police Department, and the Barry County, Mo., Sheriff’s Department.
Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
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