CEDAR RAPIDS – A Greene man who received child pornography pled guilty on February 6, 2018 in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
David Myers, age 54, from Greene, Iowa, was convicted of one count of receipt of child pornography. At the plea hearing, Myers admitted that, between 2005 and 2014, he used the Internet to receive child pornography. In a plea agreement, Myers admitted that, in 1998, he was convicted of three charges of sexual abuse in the third degree.
Sentencing before Chief United States District Court Judge Leonard T. Strand will be set after a presentence report is prepared. Myers was taken into custody by the United States Marshal after the guilty plea and will remain in custody pending sentencing. Myers faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment and a possible maximum sentence of 40 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a $100 special assessment, and supervised release for 5 years to life following any imprisonment.
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Mark Tremmel and was investigated by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.