Child Pornography Distributor from Dubuque Sentenced to 14 Years in Federal Prison

A man who distributed child pornography to multiple people was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison.

Jonathan Reed Snow, age 26, from Dubuque, Iowa, received the prison term after a September 24, 2025, guilty plea to distribution of child pornography.

Evidence at sentencing showed that in August 2024, law enforcement officers searched Snow’s home and seized electronic devices.  Officers discovered that between September 2023 and August 2024, Snow distributed, received, and possessed child pornography in Discord accounts and on multiple electronic devices.  Snow traded child pornography with others online.  In total, he possessed over a thousand images and videos of child pornography, which included depictions of prepubescent children and of sadistic and masochistic conduct.

Snow was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge C.J. Williams.  Snow was sentenced to 168 months’ imprisonment and was ordered to make $24,000 in restitution to victims in this case.  He must also serve a 10‑year term of supervised release after the prison term.  There is no parole in the federal system.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys' Offices and CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit Justice.gov/PSC.

Snow is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Devra T. Hake and investigated by the Dubuque Police Department and the U.S. Secret Service.  

Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.

The case file number is 25-CR-1018.

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