North Carolina Man Pleads Guilty to Terrorism Charge:

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

North Carolina Man Pleads Guilty to Terrorism Charge:

 

RALEIGH, N.C. – Dylan Boyd , aka “Mohammed,” pleaded guilty today in federal court in New Bern, N.C., to one count of aiding and abetting a conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, announced Lisa Monaco, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Thomas G. Walker, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina; M. Chris Briese, Special Agent-in-Charge of the FBI Charlotte Division; and John F. Khin, Special Agent-in-Charge, Southeast Field Office, Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS).

Boyd, 24, a U.S. citizen and resident of North Carolina, was first charged along with seven other defendants in a federal indictment returned on July 22, 2009.   He was arrested on July 29, 2009, and the indictment was unsealed.   On Sept. 24, 2009, a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment in the case.

 

According to the superseding indictment, from before November 2006 through at least July 2009, Boyd aided and abetted other named defendants and others who conspired to provide material support and resources to terrorists, including currency, training, transportation and personnel.   The object of the conspiracy, according to the indictment, was to advance violent jihad, including supporting and participating in terrorist activities abroad and committing acts of murder, kidnapping or maiming persons abroad. (Read More.)

Delaware Man Pleads Guilty to Production and Transportation of Child Pornography:

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Monday, September 12, 2011

 

Delaware Man Pleads Guilty to Production and Transportation of Child Pornography

WASHINGTON – A Wilmington, Del., man pleaded guilty today to production and transportation of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Charles M. Oberly III of the District of Delaware and John P. Kelleghan, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and   Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Philadelphia.  

 

Leonard Wasylyk, 49, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Sue L. Robinson in the District of Delaware.   Wasylyk has been detained since his Dec. 9, 2010, arrest.  

 

According to statements made and documents filed in court, an undercover agent from the Wilmington office of the Department of Homeland Security HSI identified Wasylyk during an online undercover investigation into a private peer-to-peer network being used to trade images of child pornography.   After downloading computer files containing child pornography from Wasylyk’s home computer, federal agents arrested Wasylyk and executed a search warrant at his North Wilmington residence on Dec. 9, 2010.   Law enforcement agents recovered a computer from Wasylyk’s bedroom that contained over 60,000 images of child pornography.   The majority of the images depicted mostly prepubescent, adolescent and teenage boys engaged in sex acts with other boys or adult males.   Through a forensic analysis of Wasylyk’s computer, agents learned that Wasylyk had traded images of child pornography with approximately 150 individuals, with whom he had engaged in over 15,500 instant message chats.  

           

According to court documents, during the forensic review of Wasylyk’s computer, agents discovered more than 60 images of a young boy engaged in sexually explicit conduct with Wasylyk in the bedroom of his Wilmington residence.   Agents subsequently identified the child and located him in Southeastern Pennsylvania.   The child reported that Wasylyk produced the sexually explicit images when the boy was 12 or 13 years old.   Forensic analysis also revealed that Wasylyk distributed the sexually explicit images that he produced to other child sex offenders while bragging about having molested the boy.

 

At sentencing, scheduled for Jan. 4, 2012, Wasylyk faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison on the production of child pornography charge and a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on the transportation of child pornography charge.   Wasylyk also faces a term of supervised release of five years to life following his prison sentence, and will be required to register as a sex offender in any jurisdiction in which he lives, works or attends school.             

 

This case is being investigated by HSI.   This case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Thomas Franzinger of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward J. McAndrew of the District of Delaware.