Bangor Man Pleads Guilty to Possessing Child Pornography

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Bangor Man Pleads Guilty to Possessing Child Pornography

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys on Oct. 29, 2015. It is reproduced in full below.

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Joshua Dunston, 37, of Bangor, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to possessing child pornography.

According to court records, from about March 17 to about May 5, 2015, Dunston uploaded multiple images of child pornography to online accounts he controlled, and kept scores of additional images depicting the sexual exploitation of young children on his cell phone. At the time of these acts, Dunston was on supervised release for a 2006 child pornography conviction.

Dunston faces between 10 and 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and between five years and a lifetime of supervised release. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

The investigation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit, the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office, and the Bangor Police Department.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys

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