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NY Man Sentenced to 7 Years in Jail for Transporting Explicit Images of Minors to NJ

New Jersey

By: Richard L. Smith 

A federal Judge in NJ sentenced a NY resident to 7 years in jail Tuesday for transporting multiple items of explicit images of minors into New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Federal authorities said Jesus Modesto Sanchez, 31, of New York, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi to an information charging him with one count of transporting explicit images of minors.

Judge Quraishi imposed the sentence today in Trenton federal court.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:

In October 2020, Modesto Sanchez began communicating with an undercover officer who he believed was a minor on a web-based application.

On Oct. 17, 2020, Modesto Sanchez was arrested after traveling from New York to New Jersey to meet the undercover officer.

Law enforcement officers subsequently discovered a significant collection of explicit images of minors on Modesto Sanchez’s cellular telephone, including 72 videos and one image depicting the sexual abuse of minors.  

In addition to the prison sentence, Judge Quraishi sentenced Modesto Sanchez to five years of supervised release.

 

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