POCATELLO - Craig Marshall Grayson, 30, of Pocatello, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to transportation of child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Grayson was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pocatello on Feb. 28, 2017.
According to the plea agreement, law enforcement agents downloaded four sexually exploitative videos of a minor from an individual later identified as Grayson between July 5 and Aug. 12, 2016. A search of Grayson’s home and computer devices revealed his additional possession of approximately 978 images and 65 videos of child pornography.
The charge of transportation of child pornography is punishable by at least five, and up to 20, years in prison, a maximum fine of $250,000, and five years, up to a life term, of supervised release.
Sentencing is set for Nov. 27, 2017, before U.S. District Judge David C. Nye at the federal courthouse in Pocatello.
The case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc. For more information about internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab “resources."
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
