FLORIDA — Two Martin County residents were indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury for producing child pornography. One was also charged with the distribution of child pornography.
Joshua Lane Rogers, 34, and Richard William Lockley, 34, both of Stuart, were charged in a superseding indictment. Both defendants have been detained pending trial as a risk of flight and danger to the community.
If convicted of the production or distribution charges, Rogers and Lockley face a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years up to 30 years in prison, up to a lifetime of supervised release, and mandatory sex offender registration.
According to the criminal complaints, on September 3, 2017, SLCSO deputies responded to a “Missing Person Juvenile/ Runaway” call for a missing 16-year-old minor. On September 27, 2017, Rogers was arrested when he was located at a Stuart Dunkin Donuts with the minor victim.
After meeting her online, Rogers offered the minor victim to come live with him. A forensic analysis of Roger’s cellular smart phone revealed that Rogers had recorded sexually explicit activity with the minor victim on numerous occasions, using his cellular smartphone. Detectives later discovered that Rogers distributed several of the images and videos to other individuals, via MMS text communications, and a social media networking program. Detectives found that Rogers and another male produced a video of sexually explicit conduct and activity with the minor victim. MCSO detectives identified this male to be Lockley and arrested him on November 15, 2017.
Detectives executed a federal search warrant on Lockley’s cellular smartphone, locating videos of Rogers and Lockley engaged in sexually explicit activity with the victim, produced inside of Rogers’ Martin County residence.
