Man sentenced to 7 years in prison for transporting child pornography into New Jersey
NEW JERSEY – A New York man was sentenced Tuesday to 84 months in prison for transporting multiple items of child sexual abuse into New Jersey, according to U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger.
Jesus Modesto Sanchez, 31, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi to one count of transporting of child pornography, Sellinger said.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court, in October 2020, Modesto Sanchez began communicating with an undercover officer who he believed was a minor on a web-based application. On Oct. 17, 2020, Modesto Sanchez was arrested after traveling from New York to New Jersey to meet the undercover officer.
Law enforcement officers subsequently discovered a significant collection of child pornography on Modesto Sanchez’s cellular telephone, including 72 videos and one image depicting the sexual abuse of minors.
In addition to the prison sentence, Judge Quraishi sentenced Sanchez to five years of supervised release, Sellinger said.
