ROBERT GOGOLEWSKI WILL BE REQUIRED TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER after prison says government press release
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prison says government press release
ROBERT GOGOLEWSKI, FORMER ENLISTED NAVY MAN, SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR 15
YEARS FOR TRAFFICKING IN CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
United States Attorney
Eastern District of California
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, July 21, 2008
www.usdoj.gov/usao/cae
Docket #: 06-cr-347-AWI
FORMER ENLISTED NAVY MAN SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR
15 YEARS FOR TRAFFICKING IN CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
FRESNO, Calif.- The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of
California announced
that ROBERT GOGOLEWSKI, 24, formerly of Lemoore, California, was sentenced
by
the United States District Court Judge to 15 years to be followed by a
20-year term
of supervised release for receipt and distribution of images of minors
engaged in sexually
explicit conduct. GOGOLEWSKI will be required to register as a sex offender,
and his access to
minors, computers, and the internet will be restricted.
This case is the result of an investigation by the Naval Criminal
Investigative Service in
Lemoore, California and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
office in Fresno,
California., with assistance from the Fresno County Sheriff's Department
Computer Crimes
Unit.
According to the assistant United States Attorney who prosecuted the case,
GOGOLEWSKI became the
subject of investigation after he attempted to transmit on January 19, 2006,
two images of child
pornography as attachments to an e-mail message using America Online (AOL).
AOL detected
the two images and referred them to analysts at the National Center for
Missing & Exploited
Children (NCMEC) through its CyberTipline. NCMEC then provided the Fresno
ICE office on
January 25, 2006 with sufficient information to identify GOGOLEWSKI as the
individual
responsible for transmitting the illegal images.
When a search warrant was executed at his residence on the Lemoore Naval Air
Station,
agents located more than 900 still and 24 video images of child pornography
saved on the
defendant's computer. Subsequent forensic review of the computer revealed a
"Buddy List"
entitled "Good Trade" that led to the identification of approximately two
dozen other persons
involved in trafficking child pornography images.
GOGOLEWSKI has been in federal custody, as a danger to the community and a
flight
risk, since December 11, 2006. Before that he was in military custody as a
result of his arrest on
June 27, 2006, and subsequent conviction for military charges related to
explosives found at his
residence.