On April 30, 2025, former FBI Electronics Technician, previously assigned to the Nashville Field Office, was sentenced to 20 years in prison with 10 years’ supervised release and ordered to pay a $700 special assessment. Justin D. Carroll was sentenced in the Middle District of Tennessee. After a jury trial, Carroll was found guilty of one count of sexual exploitation of a minor, one count of coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity, three counts of transfer of obscene material to an individual under the age of sixteen, and two counts of receipt of child pornography. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Carroll engaged in communication through email and multiple online chat platforms with three identified minor victims in which he coerced the minor victims to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual depiction of such conduct for transport or transmission to his possession and to engage in sexual activity. Further, Carroll transferred obscene material to minor victims and received child pornography from minor victims. The investigation was conducted by the OIG’s Cyber Investigations Office and the FBI.
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