DES MOINES – Five men in southern Iowa were sentenced recently in separate prosecutions to nearly 44 years in prison combined for their unrelated roles in trading online child pornography.
These sentences resulted from a multi-agency initiative led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), in cooperation with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa, and the Iowa police departments of Albia, Creston, Grinnell, Marshalltown and Osceola.
This investigation centered on trading child pornography images and videos on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. The following five defendants were charged and convicted in separate prosecutions, and were sentenced to a combined total of 43 years and eight months in prison:
Monroe Francisco Zayas (Marshalltown, Iowa), 20 years;
Monroe Wardlow (Grinnell, Iowa), eight years;
Enrique Guzman (Osceola, Iowa), six years and eight months;
William Trimble, Jr. (Albia, Iowa), five years;
Michael Hanold (Creston, Iowa), four years.
After they serve their prison sentences, each man must also register as a sex offender, and serve at least five years on supervised release.
