A Minneapolis man was sentenced to 35 years in prison followed by a lifetime term of supervised release for producing sexually explicit videos of minors according the U.S. Attorney’s office in Minneapolis.
U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger announced that in March 2020, Jay Tyrell Whiteford, 40, used his cell phone and Snapchat account to communicate with at least two minors. According to court documents, in his communications Whiteford used an alias and told the minor he was 16 years old. He induced the minors to create and send to him sexually explicit videos and images.
Whiteford was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court. On June 17, 2022, he pleaded guilty to one count of production of child pornography.
This case was the result of an investigation conducted by the FBI and the Minneapolis Police Department.
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