San Joaquin County Man Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for Child Pornography Charges

SACRAMENTO—United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Pete Andre Flores, 24, of Thornton, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. to six years in prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, for possessing child pornography.

According to court documents, on February 6, 2010, an undercover officer from New Hampshire was invited by Flores to use a peer-to-peer file-sharing program. The officer downloaded approximately 200 files depicting child pornography directly from Flores. On February 16, 2010, a Sacramento FBI agent downloaded 20 files from Flores that depicted child pornography.

On February 18, 2010, a federal search warrant was executed at Flores’s residence, and more than 27, 300 images of child pornography were found on a Acer laptop computer belonging to Flores.

This case is the result of an investigation by the FBI, Sacramento Division, Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force on Internet Crimes Against Children, and the Keene Police Department in New Hampshire. Assistant United States Attorneys Michelle Prince and Ellen Endrizzi prosecuted the case.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov or call the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California and ask to speak with the PSC coordinator.