Homeland Security contractor accused of ‘prolific’ child porn
A computer specialist for the Department of Homeland Security was arrested Thursday for being one the nation’s most prolific disseminators of child pornography.
After a months-long investigation, FBI agents tracked Peter W. North to his home in Alexandria where they discovered 80 gigabytes — the equivalent of 25,000 pictures or 250 hours of video on your iPod — of child pornography in an external hard drive, according to a sworn statement by FBI agent Chad J. Gallagher.
North had come to Gallagher’s attention after the agent reviewed a list of the “most prolific offerors of apparent child pornography in the United States” that had been pieced together by a Wyoming-based federal task force. Working with Comcast, North’s Internet provider, Gallagher was able to use an Internet Protocol address assigned to North to find his home.
The Wyoming task force’s review of activity at North’s IP address between Dec. 10 and March 11 showed that the address was connected to more than 600 files containing child pornography, Gallagher wrote. Between March 27 and June 23, another 375 files were linked to the address
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Homeland Security official arrested in child sex sting
Sheriff: Suspect chatted online with detective posing as teen girl
Wednesday, April 5, 2006; Posted: 11:38 a.m. EDT (15:38 GMT)
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Manage Alerts | What Is This? WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Department of Homeland Security official was arrested Tuesday night on charges of using his computer to seduce a child after he allegedly struck up sexually explicit conversations with a detective posing as a 14-year-old girl, authorities said.
Brian J. Doyle, 55, is charged with seven counts of use of a computer to seduce a child and 16 counts of transmission of harmful material to a minor, according to the Polk County, Florida, Sheriff's Office.
Doyle, a deputy press secretary, will be placed on administrative leave, although it's unclear if it he will be paid, a department official said.
In interviews with police, Doyle confessed and has agreed to waive extradition to Florida from Maryland, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. (Watch deputies take Doyle away in cuffs -- 3:18)
On March 12, Doyle contacted a Polk County computer crimes detective who was posing online as a 14-year-old girl and "initiated a sexually explicit conversation with her. ... Doyle knew that the 'girl' was 14 years old, and he told her who he was and that he worked for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security," according to a statement from the sheriff's office
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