DALLAS — Jeffrey David Mitchell, 54, of Garland, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to 144 months in federal prison and 10 years supervised release following his guilty plea in August 2015 to one count of transportation of child pornography.
Mitchell has been in federal custody since his arrest in May 2015 on related charges.
According to documents filed in the case, the investigation began in late April 2015 resulting from a CyberTip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) regarding the upload of images depicting child pornography to an electronic group and to various email accounts. The investigation led law enforcement to secure and execute a search warrant on Mitchell’s home on April 29, 2015; Mitchell and his parents were home during the search.
Mitchell admitted he possessed child pornography and that he sent and received child pornography via his email account. He confirmed that he created and used multiple email accounts to trade the child pornography, and that images of child pornography were on his desktop computer located in his bedroom.
Law enforcement seized several media items from the residence, and a forensic analysis and review of Mitchell’s email accounts revealed approximately 750 images and 100 videos of child pornography. Some of those images and videos depict sadistic/and/or violent content, and some of the files depict infants and toddlers.
