Gates County Repeat Offender Convicted on Child Pornography Charges in North Carolina
A federal jury has convicted a Gates County, North Carolina, man of transporting and possessing child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced. Myron Curtis Pelech, 46, also known as “Ping Pelech,” was convicted of both charges.
At the time of his arrest, Pelech was already on federal supervised release following a prior conviction in the Eastern District of North Carolina for receiving child pornography in 2016. He had been out of prison for less than a year before agents caught him engaging in the same type of criminal conduct again.
FBI agents arrested Pelech after tracing a significant volume of child sexual abuse material shared over the BitTorrent network to his room at the Regency Inn in Fayetteville. BitTorrent is a decentralized file-sharing network in which users share pieces of a file with one another at the same time.
When agents executed a search warrant at his room, they recovered a concealed cell phone and a tablet hidden under the television stand. A forensic review of the cell phone revealed a saved screenshot of a website dedicated to child sexual exploitation, and agents found more than 150 videos and over 200 images of child sexual abuse material on the tablet, depicting severe exploitation of very young children.
Pelech faces 15 to 40 years in federal prison for transporting child pornography and 10 to 20 years for possessing child pornography. U.S. Attorney Ellis Boyle made the announcement after U.S. District Judge Louise W. Flanagan accepted the verdict. The FBI is investigating the case, which is filed as Case No. 7:22-CR-367-FL.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
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