Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Joshua Dunston, 38, of Bangor, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 121 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for possessing child pornography and a consecutive term of two years for violating his conditions of supervised release, also followed by a lifetime of supervised release. In addition, the defendant was ordered to pay $13,000 in restitution. He pled guilty on Oct. 29, 2015.
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.
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
