Steve Neavling

A former Border Patrol agent was sentenced Monday to more than three years in prison on charges of stealing government property and possessing child pornography, San Diego 6 News reports.

Rodolfo Zuniga, 34, was assigned to the Border Patrol’s Imperial Beach, Calif., station between November 2009 and March 2010 when feds say he stole four sets of night-vision goggles and one GPS unit, all of which he sold on eBay for a combined $10,000, San Diego 6 wrote.

While searching his house in Imperial Beach, authorities found more than 375 images of child pornography, San Diego 6 reported.

Zuniga resigned two weeks after his arrest.

Steve Neavling

When it comes to child pornography, the suspects are almost always men.

But ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations special agents are  searching for a woman who produced a child pornography video that depicts her engaging in explicit sex with a 4-to-5-year-old victim, the Daily Mail reports.

The woman is believed to be between 23 and 29 years old.

Investigators fear the child is still in danger. The video was uploaded to the Internet on or about Nov. 27, the Daily Mail reported.

The Mail incorrectly reported that the FBI was investigating. ICE’s Homeland Security Investigation  is the agency working on the case.

Steve Neavling

 A Missouri man was so spooked by an Internet scam that he tipped off police about child porn on his computer, the Springfield News-Leader reports.

Police say the unnamed man, who is now under investigation, panicked when he received an alert that the FBI wanted $200 to unlock his computer to search for porn.

Not knowing the alert was part of a computer virus, the man called police and said he believed there was porn on his computer that he had tried to delete in the past, according to the News-Leader.

When he took the computer into the police department for a look, cops said they found 20 images and a video of child porn.

The former head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Southern Florida was sentenced Friday to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison on a child pornography charge.

The Sun-Sentinel newspaper reported that Anthony Mangione, 52, pleaded guilty in July to e-mailing child pornography to a former school bus driver in Delaware.

The paper reported that the feds alleged that he had up to 150 images of child pornography, some depicting the “extreme abuse of children.”

He was put on administrative leave in April 2011.

The former special agent in charge of ICE’s South Florida office is set to be sentenced today on a child pornography charge, WPTV reports.

Anthony Mangione, who was a leading crusader against child pornography, faces a mandatory sentence of at least five years in prison, according to WPTV.

Authorities recently said they also discovered that Mangione used his ICE expertise to wipe clean 150 pieces of child porn from his personal computer.

Mangione’s attorney said his client suffers from a mental disorder that makes him sexually attracted to children, WPTV reported.

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A musician who became famous on YouTube is banned from using the Internet after he was arrested at his home in New York on charges that he coaxed two underage girls to send him sexually explicit photos and videos, the Daily Mail reports.

Michael Lombardo, 23, is accused of enticing a 14-year-old and 16-year-old to send him images. One was ordered to masturbate, according to the Daily Mail.

Lombardo faces four counts of child pornography and up to 30 years in prison.

Similar allegations have surfaced in the past, the Daily Mail reported.

A former top U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official accused of looking at images of minors having sex  pleaded guilty Friday to federal pornography charges, The Associated Press reports.

A 27-year veteran of ICE, Anthony Mangione, 51, ran the agency’s South Florida operations from 2007 to 2011 and helped investigate child pornography cases.

Mangione was charged in September with three counts of using a home computer to receive and transmit child pornography.

Mangione retired a few months after authorities searched his home and office computers in April 2011. Sentencing is set for Oct. 5.  He faces a mandatory minimum of five year in prison.

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By Danny Fenster

Dominick Pelletier was not expecting prison time when he went looking for a job at the FBI. But he got it.

The 34-year-old suburban Chicago resident applied with the bureau as an intelligence analyst in August of 2008, according to the Daily Herald, but after taking a routine polygraph test he told interviewers that he felt he made mistakes on the polygraph regarding questions involving child pornography.

Pelletier later admitted to having child porn on his computer, and allowed authorities to search it, the paper reported. In August of 2011 he pleaded guilty to the charges.

After pleading guilty to charges of possession of child pornography, the one-time FBI job applicant was recently handed an 80 month prison sentence without parole, reports the Daily Herald.

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