Former IT Technician Sentenced for Stealing Coworker's Personal Data and Possessing Child Pornography

TULSA, Okla. – An IT Technician was sentenced today for possessing child pornography and obtaining personal and intimate photographs of co-workers and their families, as well as collecting data to access their personal information online, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.

U.S. Circuit Judge Gustavo A. Gelpi, Jr., sentenced Chad Henry Davis, 32, for three counts of Obtaining Information by Computer from a Protected Computer, Possession of Fifteen or More Unauthorized Access Devices, Possession of Child Pornography, and two counts of Aggravated Identity Theft. Judge Gelpi ordered Davis to serve 87 months imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release. Upon his release, Davis will also be required to register as a sex offender.

Court documents show the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a CyberTip. Investigators found that Davis possessed at least 12 images and two videos that showed minor children being sexually abused. They further discovered personal and intimate photos that did not belong to Davis. When officers executed a federal warrant at his home, they found that Davis abused his access as an IT Technician and accessed his co-worker’s computers remotely.

Davis admitted to accessing and saving private photos of former co-workers that contained sensitive pictures of family members, including images of adults and one pubic area of a minor.  He further admitted to collecting more than 500 usernames and passwords for personal banking, financial, medical, educational, and social media accounts that belonged to his co-workers. 

Davis will remain in custody pending transfer to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.

Homeland Security Investigations and the Tulsa Police Department investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney George Jiang prosecuted the case.

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.