(This is from a report from The United States Department of Justice)
Pulaski County, MO. – On Tuesday, April 16, 2024, U.S. Marine Corps private Gevoni Rayon Brown, 23, was sentenced in federal court for transporting child pornography across state lines.
U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool sentenced Brown to 12 years in prison without parole and 10 years of supervised release following incarceration, as well as registering as a sex offender upon release. Brown has to pay a fine of $24,000 in restitution to eight victims of child pornography discovered on his cell phone.
On September 21, 2023, Brown pleaded guilty to transporting child pornography and admitted to exchanging sexually explicit videos with a 15-year-old female in California. Brown was in California at the time of these conversations, from March 4 to June 26, 2022. Brown arrived in Fort Leonard Wood on November 9, 2022. On December 14, 2022, federal agents executed a search of Brown’s barracks and confiscated two phones, which contained child pornography.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie L. Wan. It was investigated by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigative Division, Homeland Security Investigations, the Springfield, Mo., Police Department, the Southwest Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force, the Richmond, Calif., Police Department, and the Contra Costa County, Calif., District Attorney’s Office.
