DOJ: Former corrections sergeant from Chowchilla indicted for receiving, distributing child porn

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A erstwhile California Corrections sergeant from Chowchilla has been indicted Thursday aft being charged with receipt of organisation of kid pornography, the Department of Justice announced.

According to tribunal documents, 39-year-old Ralph Contreras Jr. received and distributed astatine slightest 1 ocular deception of a insignificant engaged successful sexually explicit behaviour betwixt September 2024 and January 2025.

Contreras was a corrections sergeant with the California Department of Corrections astatine the clip of the offenses.

If convicted, helium faces a maximum statutory punishment of up to 20 years successful prison, with a mandatory minimum of 5 years successful prison, and a good of up to $250,000. Any sentence, however, would beryllium determined astatine the discretion of the tribunal aft information of immoderate applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which instrumentality into relationship a fig of variables.