Pocatello man charged after allegedly downloading child porn

POCATELLO — A man constabulary opportunity downloaded 8 images depicting nude children arsenic young arsenic 8 has been charged pinch aggregate felonies.

Jason Douglas Malone, 37, faces 8 counts intersexual exploitation of a child, tribunal records show.

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The Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force received a extremity regarding nan alleged intersexual exploitation of a kid from nan National Center for Missing and Exploited Children connected Nov. 27, according to an affidavit of probable cause. The extremity was initially submitted by Google Inc., which reported 8 suspected files of kid intersexual exploitation.

Investigators submitted subpoenas to Google and an net supplier linked to nan relationship utilized to download nan reported images. The personification was identified arsenic Malone, nan affidavit says.

The investigators past served a hunt warrant for Malone’s Google Drive relationship utilized to upload nan images.

According to nan affidavit, nan 8 images reported were of girls — nan youngest astir 8 years old, either nude aliases mostly nude.

The relationship besides had an image of a Ford pickup motortruck pinch a licence sheet visible. Officers searched their database and recovered that nan motortruck was registered to Malone.

On June 26, ICAC officers, on pinch officers from respective section rule enforcement agencies, served a hunt warrant astatine Malone’s home. Malone was simultaneously arrested during a postulation extremity and brought to nan Pocatello Police Department for questioning.

Malone initially denied creating nan email relationship which was utilized to download nan images aliases viewing specified images, but, according to nan affidavit, he yet admitted to downloading images of nude children.

He besides admitted to viewing different images of some kid sexually exploitative worldly and kid intersexual abuse, nan affidavit says. The different images allegedly see boy and girls betwixt nan ages of 2 and 16.

Malone was arrested and taken to Bannock County Jail, wherever he was booked and is being held connected a $150,000 bond.

Though Malone has been charged pinch these crimes, it does not needfully mean he committed them. Everyone is presumed guiltless until they are proven guilty.

If he is recovered guilty, Malone would look up to 80 years successful prison.

He is scheduled to look successful tribunal July 9 for a preliminary proceeding earlier Magistrate Judge David Penrod.