Former Stockton Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Receipt of Child Pornography
| U.S. Attorney’s Office June 16, 2011 |
SACRAMENTO, CA—United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that John Milo Krivokapich, 43, of Stockton, pleaded guilty today to receiving child pornography.
This case is the product of a joint investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Stockton Police Department, the Boone County Missouri Sheriff’s Department, and the Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force. Assistant United States Attorney Kyle Reardon is prosecuting the case.
According to court documents, in 2008, Krivokapich began communicating with a 15-year-old Missouri girl through the website mmajacked.com. They also communicated through e-mails and telephone. Over the course of several weeks, the online conversation grew more explicit, including statements by Krivokapich describing particular sexual acts that he wanted to perform on the girl. He sent a picture of his penis to the girl and requested that she send him sexually explicit photographs of herself.
Krivokapich told the victim on at least two occasions that he wanted her to travel to California to meet him, and that he would pay for the airfare. In response to the initial invitation, the victim told Krivokapich that she would have to ask her parents for permission. The victim approached her mother about traveling to California, telling her that she could get “free tickets.”
The victim’s mother called the police, and Stockton police received a search warrant for Krivokapich’s residence. Officers found thousand of pictures and videos of child pornography that Krivokapich had been downloading from Internet file-sharing networks since April 2004.
Videos possessed by Krivokapich showed pre-pubescent females performing oral sex on adult males, and adult males vaginally and anally penetrating pre-pubescent females. Also included was an 83-minute video in which an adult male orally, vaginally, and anally penetrates a pre-pubescent female.
Krivokapich is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller on September 8, 2011. He faces a sentence of no less than five years and up to 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, and a lifetime period of supervised release. The actual sentence, however, will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood (PSC), a nationwide initiative by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, PSC mobilizes federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information call the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California and ask to speak with the PSC coordinator.