Lockesburg Man Accused of Receiving Child Porn from Texarkana Teen

According to a criminal complaint filed in federal court, on November 13, 2014, an interview was conducted with a 15 year old female at the Texas Children’s Advocacy Center. “In the interview the juvenile female admitted to using a social networking application and participating in chat rooms that include child pornography. The juvenile female also admitting to exchanging images of child pornography online with an unnamed male friend at his request,” states Donna Layman, Special Agent with the United States Department of Homeland Security, in the complaint.

“On December 5,2014, the juvenile female voluntarily provided an inactive cellular phone to law enforcement officials. The juvenile female indicated that she uses the inactive cellular phone to contact a subject named NATHAN THOMAS by wifi-based applications on the device. She also identified NATHAN THOMAS as the unnamed male that she had previously described during the CAC interviews. The juvenile female and her father provided written consent to search this device. The inactive cellular phone contained a text conversation in a social networking application between the juvenile female and a sender identified as “prOmetheus8” that described an incident where “prOmetheus8” encouraged the juvenile female to perform a sex act that was similar to an event that was previously described by the juvenile female during the first CAC interview. The juvenile female identified NATHAN THOMAS as “prOmetheus8″ and described him as a 22 or 23-year old white male who lives near De Queen, in the Western District of Arkansas. The juvenile female also described the residence where THOMAS resides.”

“On December 06,2014, your affiant along with additional law enforcement members, executed a search warrant at a residence in Lockesburg, Arkansas. Upon arrival at the residence, a subject identified as NATHAN THOMAS was present and an active cellular telephone belonging to him was recovered. The phone was searched and found to contain on the home screen the name llprOmetheus8″ as well as the identity of the juvenile female among the device’s stored contacts. A further review of the phone revealed that it contained numerous pornographic images of females. Law enforcement was able to verify that at least 2 of these pornographic images were of the juvenile female. (born in 1999).”

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