FBI
INNOCENT IMAGES TASK FORCE MAKES ARREST IN
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY POSSESSION CASE
Tampa, Florida -
David Reign, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Tampa Division of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced the arrest of Julian Clawson.
The arrest was based on a federal complaint.
Mr. Clawson, 24,
a contract system administrator at MCDILL Air Force Base, was arrested
Wednesday, July 25, 2007, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Innocent
Images Task Force (IITF).
Mr. Clawson was
arrested in Tarpon Springs, Florida, without incident, on Federal charges
involving the violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252(a),
which is the possession of child pornography.
The FBI's Innocent
Images Task Force is a multi-agency task force comprised of the FBI, the
Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, the Largo Police Department, the
Lakeland Police Department and the United States Probation Office. The
Task Force is an intelligence driven, proactive investigative initiative
to combat the proliferation of child pornography and child sexual exploitation
facilitated by the Internet. The mission of the Innocent Images Task Force
is to reduce the vulnerability of children to acts of sexual exploitation
and abuse facilitated through computers; to identify and rescue witting
and unwitting child victims; and to investigate and prosecute sexual predators
who use the Internet to sexually exploit children for personal and financial
gain.
Mr. Clawson faces
a 10 year maximum sentence of incarceration. The charges in the complaint
are merely allegations and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and
until proven guilty.
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