Ex-soldier gets 14 months over Webcam photo

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Ex-soldier gets 14 months over Webcam photo
The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Apr 25, 2008 6:02:21 EDT

LITTLE ROCK — A former Arkansas guardsman has gotten a break on his sentence for an obscenity conviction because of his military service.

Dale W. Box, 33, of El Dorado pleaded guilty last November to a felony charge of attempting to transfer obscene material to someone younger than 16.

U.S. District Judge William R. Wilson sentenced Box to 14 months in prison Wednesday and fined him $2,000. Box had faced 18 to 24 months in prison and a maximum fine of $4,000, under federal sentencing guidelines.

According to an indictment, Box was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, but was home in El Dorado when he allegedly sent a Web camera image of himself in a sexual act to someone he believed to be a 14-year-old girl.

The girl was actually Shannon Hills Police Chief Richard Friend, who created an Internet profile of an eighth-grade girl. The prosecution alleged that Box sent photographs of himself to the girl by computer that included one of him in military attire and a close-up of his groin.


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