Kettering Attorney/Girls Basketball Coach Arrested on Transfer of Obscene Images to Minors Charges

Keith L. Bennett, Special Agent in Charge (SAC), of the Cincinnati Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Gregory G. Lockhart, United States Attorney, Southern District of Ohio, announce that Marc Norman Greenberg, age 32 of Centerville, Ohio, was arrested without incident this morning at his law office in Kettering by FBI agents.  Greenberg has been charged in a federal complaint filed at the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, Dayton, with 12 counts of violating Title 18, U.S. Code Section 1470 (Obscenity).  Greenberg is the Girls Basketball Coach at Chaminade-Julienne High School in Dayton.

The complaint charging Greenberg alleges that during the period February through April of 2009, Greenberg used computers at his home and office to engage in graphic sexual conversations and to transmit obscene images including videos of a male masturbating.  These images were sent to individuals who Greenberg believed were underage females.  Conviction on each count carries a maximum punishment of 10 years imprisonment.

The affidavit in support of the complaint alleges that beginning in late January 2009 a New York law enforcement officer, posing as an underage female, began electronic communication with an individual utilizing the screen names bballguy5555@aol.com and aig2010@aol.com.  These conversations became increasingly sexually explicit and included requests by the subject to the underage female to send sexually explicit images of herself and to meet the subject in New York to engage in sexual acts.  Eventually the subject sent streaming video of himself masturbating.  The affidavit further alleges that the subject, using the same screen names, also engaged in similar conversations with a person who he believed was an underage daughter of a military service member but who was, in fact, a Naval Criminal Investigative Service Investigator. Requests for subscriber information from AOL revealed that the screen names were registered to IP addresses at Greenberg’s office in Kettering. 

The charges against Greenberg do not allege any illegal conduct by him in his role as the Chaminade-Julienne Girls Basketball Coach.  FBI investigators and Dayton Police Officers have been in contact with officials at Chaminade-Julienne High School and those officials are cooperating in this on-going investigation.

Greenberg will receive an Initial Appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sharon Ovington at 1:30 pm today. 

SAC Bennett thanked the Dayton Police Department, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and the Kettering Police Department for their assistance in this morning’s operations as well as in the execution of federal search warrants associated with this investigation.  He also noted that this investigation was aided by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the New York State Police, and the FBI Detroit Division.

 The public is reminded that criminal complaints contain only allegations of criminal misconduct and that a defendant is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.