A longtime member of the Alaska Air National Guard was indicted last week on charges of production, possession and distribution of child pornography.
Richard Anthony Dougherty is accused of creating child pornography in part by using a hidden camera on his phone, according to court documents filed in the case against him. Federal prosecutors say between 2017 and this year he distributed child pornography over the internet and possessed “terabytes” — a unit of digital data equal to about 1 trillion bytes — of child pornography on a computer and mobile phone.
Dougherty admitted to “hoarding” a collection of pornography over about 20 years, according to a sworn affidavit filed in March by a Homeland Security Investigations special agent. Dougherty has served in the Guard for 19 years and is assigned as a propulsion specialist to the 176th Maintenance Squadron of the 176th Wing, according to Guard spokesman Alan Brown. Asked if that status has changed in light of the charges, Brown said that at this time, the Guard is “gathering as much information as possible to determine the next steps going forward.”
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