North Dakota sex offender sentenced in Oklahoma to 45 years in federal prison for producing child pornography

OKLAHOMA CITY — A North Dakota man, who had pleaded guilty to producing child pornography, was sentenced Wednesday to serve 45 years in federal prison.

Jeremy David Eades, 28, most recently from Minot, North Dakota, pleaded guilty to using a 4-year-old child to produce child pornography Nov. 29, 2012.

This case resulted from an investigation by the following agencies:  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Minot North Dakota Police Department, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the Pottawatomie County (Oklahoma) Sheriff’s Office. This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Brandon Hale and Mark Yancey, Western District of Oklahoma.

U.S. District Court Judge Robin Cauthron sentenced Eades to serve 45 years in prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release. Eades will also be required to register as a sex offender the rest of his life. Eades faced a heightened federal penalty due to a 2004 Oklahoma state court conviction for committing lewd acts with a child. Eades also had 2009 state conviction for failure to register as a sex offender. He was apprehended in Minot, North Dakota, Jan. 13, 2013, where he had traveled shortly after producing the child pornography in Pottawatomie County.

This investigation was conducted under HSI’s Operation Predator, an international initiative to protect children from sexual predators. Since the launch of Operation Predator in 2003, HSI has arrested more than 10,000 individuals for crimes against children, including producing and distributing online child pornography, traveling overseas for sex with minors, and sex trafficking children. In fiscal year 2013, more than 2,000 individuals were arrested by HSI special agents under this initiative.

HSI encourages the public to report suspected child predators and any suspicious activity through its toll-free Tip Line at 1-866-DHS-2-ICE or by completing its online tip form. Both are staffed around the clock by investigators. Suspected child sexual exploitation or missing children may be reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, an Operation Predator partner, via its toll-free 24-hour hotline, 1-800-THE-LOST.

For additional information about wanted suspected child predators, download HSI’s Operation Predator smartphone app or visit the online suspect alerts page.

HSI is a founding member and current chair of the Virtual Global Taskforce, an international alliance of law enforcement agencies and private industry sector partners working together to prevent and deter online child sexual abuse.