Charles Brown, 54, of Mesa, was sentenced today to five years in prison and a lifetime of supervision upon release, after he tried purchasing child pornography over the Internet.
In 2008, Brown ordered and paid for a video that was advertised as pornography starring a 9-year-old boy. Unfortunately for Brown, the seller of the film was a U.S. Postal Inspector working undercover as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to round up perverts started in May of 2006 by the Department of Justice.
After what must have been days of aberrant anticipation, Brown got a knock at the door only to find federal investigators with an arrest warrant, rather than a brown bag with kiddy porn in it.
Investigators also searched Brown's computer, and guess what they found: more kiddy porn, duh.
Brown pleaded guilty in March to one count of receipt of child pornography, and a federal court judge threw the proverbial book at him; let's hope it wasn't in a brown paper wrapper.
Isn't it nice to see postal employees on this side of the law every now and again?
