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A Berryville man was sentenced Tuesday, Nov. 29, to 75 months in prison followed by five years of superv ised release on one count of receipt of child pornography.
Andrew Cruz Tovar- Reyes, 20, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge P.K. Holmes III during a hearing in Fort Smith.
According to court documents, the Homeland Security Investigations office Fayetteville received a cyber tip in January 2022 from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which reported that an unknown person was utilizing an account on the Kik messenger application to upload media files including child pornography.
An investigation into the IP addresses and the Kik account information revealed the account owner to be Tovar-Reyes, Tovar-Reyes admitted to receiving child pornography using his Kik account through his cellphone.
The Berryville Police Department arrested Tovar- Reyes on Feb. 15.
Tovar-Reyes was indicted by a grand jury in April and pleaded guilty in June.
Homeland Security Investigations Fayetteville, the Northwest Arkansas Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force and the Berryville Police Department investigated the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Carly Marshall and Kyra Jenner prosecuted the case.
This case was prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and CEOs, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.
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