James Gordon Meek, who worked as an investigative producer, resigned from his position at the news organization in April 2022 the same day the FBI raided his home.
The Department of Justice announced the 53-year-old from Arlington, Virginia, was in taken into custody Tuesday night. If convicted, Meeks will receive a mandatory minimum of five years in prison and a maximum of 20.
The arrest follows an investigation led by the FBI Washington Field Office’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, which followed a March 11, 2021 tip from Dropbox to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The tip indicated that child pornography had allegedly been uploaded to an account with a username and IP addresses associated with James Meek on March 10.
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