Southern Arizona man sentenced to 15 years in prison for child pornography

TUCSON, Ariz. – A southern Arizona man has been sentenced to 180 months in prison on child pornography offenses, following an investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

Glen Kevin Winfrey, 33, of Yuma, was sentenced Wednesday and will be subject to lifetime supervision following his release from prison, including the requirement that he register as a sex offender. Winfrey pleaded guilty Aug. 11, 2015, to two counts of production of child pornography.

While on active duty as a United States Marine at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Winfrey took three surreptitious video recordings of a 10-year-old girl. He then culled still images from those recordings and produced composite images of the child with a superimposed image of an adult male which were arranged to appear as though they were engaged in sex. Winfrey’s laptop also contained approximately 120 images of child pornography.

According to court documents, Winfrey was taken into custody after waiving his right to trial based on a criminal information. The prosecution was handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Lawrence C. Lee, with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona.

This case is a product of Project Safe Childhood, a Department of Justice initiative launched in 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse, and HSI’s Operation Predator, an international initiative to protect children from sexual predators.

Led by the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute those who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims.

For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

Since the launch of Operation Predator in 2003, HSI has arrested more than 12,000 individuals for crimes against children, including the production and distribution of online child pornography, traveling overseas for sex with minors, and sex trafficking of children. In fiscal year 2014, 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.