May 29, 2008
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CANTONMENT MAN NETS NINE YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR THREATENING PHONE
CALLS AND POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Pensacola, Florida - United States Attorney Gregory R. Miller, Northern District of Florida, announced today that John W. McNair, 60, of Cantonment, Florida, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge M. Casey Rodgers to 108 months imprisonment followed by a lifetime of supervised release for making threatening interstate telephone calls and possession child pornography. McNair entered guilty pleas in October 2007.
In early August 2007, McNair placed multiple telephone calls to women in Nashville, Tennessee and informed them that he was with a female child who he was having thoughts of molesting. In order to stop him from molesting the child, McNair asked the women to talk with him on the telephone while he committed a lewd act.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, working alongside the United States Attorney's Office, the Pensacola Police Department and the Escambia County Sheriff's Office; located McNair at his Cantonment home. Law enforcement located the cellular telephone McNair used to place the calls, and recovered a significant amount of child pornography in the home. Law enforcement recovered thousands of images of child pornography – including children being raped. Evidence introduced at sentencing revealed that McNair had surreptitiously photographed a young female and made audio recordings describing his fantasies of sexually abusing infant girls. Assistant United States Attorney David L. Goldberg urged the Court to increase McNair’s penalty from the calculated range of 78 to 97 months, citing a need to protect the public and noting that McNair’s conduct had escalated from viewing child pornography on a computer to acting upon his thoughts. The Court agreed.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Pensacola Police Department, the Escambia County Sheriff's Office and the United States Attorney’s Office. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney David L. Goldberg.