Gulfport Man Sentenced to 87 Months in Prison for Possession of over 80 Videos of Child Pornography

Gulfport, Miss. - A Gulfport man was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison followed by 20 years of supervised release for possession of over 80 videos of child pornography.

Roy Alexander Johnson, 31, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Gulfport. In addition to his term of imprisonment, Johnson was ordered to pay $13,000 in restitution to victims, and $3,000 in mandatory restitution under the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act of 2018.

According to court documents, Johnson was the user of accounts which contained visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Johnson was identified after CyberTip reports from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children led to email accounts which were traced to Johnson. The email accounts contained over 80 videos of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct including minors who had not attained 12 years of age.

Johnson was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 14, 2024. He pled guilty on August 15, 2024.

U.S. Attorney Todd Gee and FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Eikhoff made the announcement.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the assistance of the Cyber Crime Division of the Mississippi Attorney General's Office.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Jones prosecuted the case.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.