The latest federal defendants are from Long Beach, Hollywood, Van Nuys and Santa Clarita.
LOS ANGELES — Four men are facing federal charges of child sexual exploitation, officials announced Tuesday.
“Protecting our children from sexual exploitation is some of the most important work my office does,” U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said in a statement. — Dustan David Sheehan, 45, of Hollywood, who surrendered Friday after being named in a criminal complaint that accuses him of distributing child pornography and possession of and access with intent to view child pornography. In an August 2020 conversation with an undercover agent on the Kik internet messaging platform, Sheehan allegedly discussed his desire to meet and sexually abuse the undercover’s fictitious 9-year-old daughter.
— Ian Nathanial Johnson, 36, of Santa Clarita, was arrested Friday after prosecutors filed a criminal complaint charging him with distribution and possession of child pornography. The investigation into Johnson was launched after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received information that Johnson had uploaded child pornography to a Dropbox account, prosecutors said.
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