EL DORADO -- A former Union County sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to just more than 12 years in federal prison on one count of knowing receipt of child pornography.
Justin Grant Crain, 38, of El Dorado was sentenced to 148 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release at a sentencing hearing Thursday in El Dorado, according to a release from Duane Kees, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Arkansas.
According to court records, in April 2016, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children forwarded information to the Arkansas State Police that images of child pornography were uploaded to cloud storage associated with a specific phone number. An investigation by state police and the Department of Homeland Security revealed the images were uploaded by Crain.
At the time, Crain was a sergeant with the Union County sheriff's office, where he had worked for nearly a year and a half. Before working for the sheriff's office, Crain was an officer with the El Dorado Police Department.
NW News on 02/18/2018