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APRIL 3, 2007
AMARILLO, TEXAS, MAN PLEADS GUILTY IN FEDERAL COURT TO POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Amarillo resident, Ronald Frank Chernick, pled guilty this morning in federal court to one count of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Richard B. Roper of the Northern District of Texas. Chernick, 57, who has been on bond since his arrest in January, is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson on June 11, 2007.
According to documents filed in Court, from 2002 until the time of his arrest, Chernick possessed books, magazines, periodicals, films, videotapes, computer disks depicting child pornography. When federal agents executed a search warrant at his home on January 25, 2007, they discovered Chernick downloading images from the Internet onto his computer. Chernick took one of the agents to a guest bedroom in the home and pointed to a computer on a desk and said “that is where you will find what you are looking for.” Chernick then pulled out three compact disks and told the agent that there were more images on the compact disks. The two disks contained child pornography in the form of approximately 360 videos and more than 600 images.
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