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SLIDELL MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO PRODUCING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IN FEDERAL PROJECT SAFE CHILDHOOD CASE
January 23, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DANNY M. DAUGHERTY, age 59, of Slidell, Louisiana, pled guilty this morning before U. S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr. to three counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten.
According to the factual basis, on May 8, 2007, members of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office and Slidell Police Department executed a search warrant at the defendant’s home in Slidell for stolen property. During the execution of the warrant, law enforcement officers found a red plastic covered folio that contained images of nude boys, some of which appeared to be printed from a computer. Officers also found a laptop computer in the residence, as well as a portable USB hard drive inside a duffel bag. Officers then contacted a Slidell Police Detective assigned to the FBI’s Innocent Images Task Force who obtained an arrest warrant charging DAUGHERTY with possession of child pornography, and a federal search warrant for the computer equipment. When officers attempted to arrest DAUGHERTY, he pulled a loaded Beretta 9 mm. semi-automatic pistol. DAUGHERTY was taken into custody only after numerous back-up units arrived on the scene. DAUGHERTY has been in federal custody since his May 9, 2007 arrest.
During the search of DAUGHERTY’s computer equipment, FBI Computer Forensic Examiners and Special Agents located approximately fifty thousand images depicting the sexual victimization of children. Agents also discovered what appeared to be images of young boys taken by the defendant.
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