James T. Jacks
Acting United States Attorney
Northern District of Texas

JUDGE ORDERS KELLER, TEXAS, MAN DETAINED
ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGE

FORT WORTH, Texas — At hearings held today in U.S. District Court in Fort Worth for Bryan K. Dickson, 46, U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles Bleil found probable cause and ordered that Dickson be detained, announced acting U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Dickson, a former resident of Arlington, Texas, was arrested on Wednesday at his home on Odeum Drive in Keller, Texas, on a federal child pornography charge outlined in a criminal complaint filed the same day.

On Wednesday, March 11, 2009, a federal search warrant was executed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at Dickson’s home; Dickson was home at the time. The affidavit filed with the complaint alleges that Dickson purchased access to child pornography from an Internet website. During the execution of the search warrant, agents interviewed Dickson and he showed them a CD in his computer that contained numerous images of child pornography. He informed the agents that he had been viewing child pornography since 2006. Dickson’s computers that were seized are still being forensically examined.

At the hearings today, evidence was presented that in 1988, Dickson was convicted in New Jersey for sexual assault of a child, after he gained the trust of the child as the babysitter. Evidence was also presented that Dickson was currently searching for babysitting jobs in the Dallas/Fort Worth area to supplement his income. Most recently, Dickson worked in Dallas at a Chick-fil-A restaurant, at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine, Texas, and at the Dallas Zoo.

A federal complaint is a written statement of the essential facts of the offenses charged, and must be made under oath before a magistrate judge. A defendant is entitled to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. The U.S. Attorney’s office has 30 days to present the matter to a grand jury for indictment.

The matter is being investigated by ICE and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex C. Lewis.

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