Jimmy Warren Miller, 60, will be sentenced Dec. 1 by U.S. District Judge John A. Houston, said the prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Alessandra P. Serano.
During a hearing Friday before U.S. Magistrate Louisa S. Porter, Miller admitted that he had a computer with more than 600 images of child pornography, including one that showed a 6-year-old girl bound to a metal bed frame with a cat licking her, Serano said.
According to court records, during an investigation by FBI agents, Miller was found to be a customer of a commercial child pornography Web site. He later responsed to an undercover FBI agent's offer of a free trial membership to a child pornography Web site that said it showed no children over the age of 14, court records said.
A federal search warrant was executed in May at Miller's residence on Ponto Drive in Carlsbad. FBI agents seized his computer and a sawed-off shotgun.
Serano said Miller faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, and a minimum penalty of five years' supervised released.
“There is no (statutory) mandate that he go to prison,” Serano said. “The judge could conceivably give probation.”
Serano said she believed Miller was currently unemployed and collecting disability.
The case stems from a nationwide investigation by the FBI and assisted by the San Diego Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.It was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a Department of Justice initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse
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