Bowdoinham Man Sentenced to 57 Months for Possession of Child Pornography

Contact: Andrew McCormack
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine:  United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Daniel Lajoie, Jr., 46, of Bowdoinham, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 57 months in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release for possession of child pornography.  Lajoie pleaded guilty to the charge on October 8, 2015.

According to court records and proceedings, between April 29 and June 3, 2012, the defendant used a computer and peer-to-peer software to make available for sharing videos of child pornography.  A federal agent, acting in an undercover capacity, downloaded seven of those videos and traced them to a computer Lajoie used at a residence in Oakland, Maine.  Lajoie’s computer was seized and examined and investigators found over 50 images and 110 videos of child pornography.

The investigation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Task Force.