United States Attorney Richard B. Roper
Northern District of Texas

CARROLLTON, TEXAS, MEN SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS
IN FEDERAL PRISON, WITHOUT PAROLE, ON CHILD PORN CONVICTION

DALLAS - Grant Trevithick, of Carrollton, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 60 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Richard B. Roper of the Northern District of Texas. Trevithick, who is in federal custody, pled guilty last September to one count of possession of child pornography in interstate commerce.

Trevithick, 47, admitted that in September 2004 he knowingly possessed images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. On October 1, 2004, Trevithick took two hard drives to Data Recovery Services, requesting recovery of data from both hard drives, including retrieval of files from a folder entitled “ZZ Pics.” That folder contained approximately 494 images of child porn which he had downloaded from the internet and saved onto his computer’s hard drive.

U.S. Attorney Roper commended the investigative efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Aisha Saleem.

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