An 87-year-old Oroville man has been sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to possess child pornography.
Bruce Clinton Johnson was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez. Johnson's son, Donald Wayne Johnson, 47, also of Oroville, pleaded guilty March 22 to receiving child pornography and was sentenced in June by Judge Mendez to 15 years in prison.
According to court documents, on Nov. 11, 2010, a computer repairman contacted Butte County sheriff's deputies after he found animated images of child pornography on a printer belonging to Donald Johnson. Between April 11, 2007, and Nov. 8, 2010, IP addresses linked to Bruce Johnson's residence that he shared with his son were identified offering images and videos of child pornography through a file-sharing network.
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On Nov. 23, 2010, law enforcement officials searched the residence and found several computers and other digital storage devices that contained images of child pornography, according to a federal Department of Justice news release. A computer in Donald Johnson's room contained more than 3,000 images of the sexual molestation of children.
According to court documents, the two men downloaded these images from the Internet using file-sharing programs on their computers and saved some of the images on CDs, SD cards and external hard drives, and stored them in their residence so they could be viewed at later times.
The case resulted from an investigation by the Sacramento Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. The federally and state funded task force is managed by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department and made up of agents from federal, state and local agencies
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