A Petersburg man will serve five years in prison for transporting child pornography, according to a Department of Justice press release.
On Tuesday, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess sentenced Marvin Mitchell Jackson, 28, after he pleaded guilty to one count of transportation of child pornography.
In mid-January, law enforcement officers seized Jackson’s cell phone while he was on a commercial flight, traveling from Washington to Petersburg. The seizure was part of an unrelated state drug investigation, according to the DOJ, but while looking through Jackson’s phone, officers found “a number of images of child pornography.”
With additional search warrants officers with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Petersburg Police Department found that Jackson possessed hundreds of images of young children engaging in sexually explicit behavior, the DOJ release reads.
Jackson had used computer software to alter images to make it appear as though he was engaging in sexual conduct with the children pictured.
In addition to the five-year sentence, Judge Burgess ordered Jackson to complete a 30-year term of supervised release.
