OXFORD, Miss. – A 51-year-old Arizona man has been sentenced to 33 and 1/3 years in prison for bringing child pornography into the State of Mississippi.
U.S. Attorney Felicia C. Adams said U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills sentenced Gregory Edward Vernon, of Florence, Ariz., on Thursday and ordered the sentence to run consecutive to a 13-year sentence he received in Arizona on April 21 to sexual exploitation of a minor and dangerous crime against a child.
Adams' office says Vernon was arrested in Tunica on an Aug. 8, 2006, warrant from Arizona. At the time of his arrest, authorities said he had a computer in his possession that contained images and movies of child pornography that jurors later found he had brought into the state.
