Joplin man sentenced to seven years on child pornography charges

During a hearing today in U. S. District Court in Springfield,  a Joplin man was sentenced to seven years in prison for receiving and distributing child pornography.

After he serves his term, John Price, 32, will be on supervised probation for 15 years. Price pleaded guilty June 10.

Price's crimes were described in a November 2019 detention motion:

The defendant’s illicit activities came to the attention of law enforcement after he posted imagery depicting child pornography to Twitter and Tumblr.

A warrant to search the defendant’s residence was subsequently obtained and executed. The defendant was located and interviewed on scene. The defendant confessed that he had deliberately downloaded depictions of child pornography from the Internet.

The defendant also informed the investigators that he had communicated with at least one minor female via the Internet.

Several devices seized during the execution of the search warrant were forensically examined. Hundreds of images and videos depicting children, as young as infants, being sexually abused were located.