United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Theron Bryce Brown, 42, of Mobile, was sentenced this morning to 65 months in prison for receiving child pornography. Following his release from prison, Brown will be supervised for fifteen years by the United States Probation Office and required to register as a sex offender.

Brown pled guilty to receiving child pornography via the Internet. As part of his plea, Brown admitted that he received images of child pornography via the Internet via a laptop computer in 2010 and 2011.

This case was investigated by the Mobile Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Sean P. Costello. The investigation was pursued as part of Project Safe Childhood, the Department of Justice’s initiative to combat the proliferation of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation crimes against children. For more information, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc