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Former ABC News writer James Gordon Meek was arrested and accused of possessing kid pornography, national authorities said Wednesday.
James Gordon Meek, a 53-year-old nonmigratory of Arlington, Virginia, was taken into custody Tuesday nighttime and was charged with proscription of kid pornography, officials said.
If convicted, Meek could look a mandatory minimum of 5 years successful situation and a maximum of 20 years down bars, authorities said.
Meek abruptly resigned from ABC past twelvemonth pursuing a raid of his location successful April.
The probe began successful March 2021 erstwhile Dropbox filed a extremity with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, claiming a idiosyncratic uploaded videos with its work that "were aboriginal confirmed by instrumentality enforcement to incorporate kid pornography," according to a transgression ailment filed successful U.S. District Court.
Investigators traced the account, with the idiosyncratic sanction "James Meek," to the suspect's location successful Arlington, the ailment alleged.
"Meek’s devices allegedly contained images depicting children engaged successful sexually explicit conduct, and aggregate chat conversations with users engaged successful sexually explicit conversations wherever the participants expressed enthusiasm for the intersexual maltreatment of children," according to a Justice Department statement.
Meek allegedly utilized societal media platforms to chat online with minors whom helium successfully urged to nonstop him explicit images of themselves, authorities said.
Investigators recovered an outer hard thrust of the fishy with "58 images and videos of kid pornography" and an iPhone 6 successful Meek's chamber with "approximately 34 images and videos of suspected kid pornography," according to the complaint.
Meek oregon a typical for him could not beryllium instantly reached for remark Wednesday day astatine respective publically listed telephone numbers for him.
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