GREENVILLE, SC (WYFF) - A former Upstate Highway Patrol Trooper is headed to prison.
Randy
L. Quinn, Jr., 34, of Seneca, South Carolina, was sentenced Thursday in
federal court in Greenville, South Carolina, for possession of child
pornography.
United States District Judge J. Michelle Childs of Greenville sentenced Quinn to three years imprisonment.
Evidence
presented at the change of plea hearing showed in May 2011 agents with
the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Investigations were
conducting an on-line Internet investigation to identify individuals
possessing and sharing child pornography.
Agents
located a computer on the network sharing approximately 49 files, and
of those files, several had file names that indicated they may contain
child pornography.
Agents initiated a download from the files listed for sharing and discovered that the files were indeed child pornography. ‘
Based on the IP address of the computer, agents traced the computer to Quinn's home.
On June 7, 2011, agents executed the warrant at the house.
Agents seized a laptop computer and found thousands of images of child pornography.
Agents
also discovered that Quinn, while on duty at Bike Week in Myrtle Beach
photographed unsuspecting minor girls in swimsuits as they played on the
beach.
Randy Quinn (Source: WYFF)
