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PerezA Green Forest man was sentenced last week to 30 years in federal prison without the possibility of parole on child pornography charges.
U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks sentenced Terencio “Junior” Perez, 33, during a hearing Friday, June 14, in Fayetteville. Perez was found guilty of two counts of sexually exploiting a minor via the production of child pornography.
Perez was arrested in June 2023 after an investigation that started four months earlier when Eureka Springs Police Department detective Josh Jackson, a member of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, received a report regarding a cyber tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children via Lenore Paladino of the Arkansas State Police in reference to a file containing suspected child pornography that was uploaded to SnapChat.
The cyber tip report indicated that the SnapChat username associated with the file was “juniorperez329” and also identified an IP address associated with the file.
Jackson viewed the file, a 25-second video depicting what appeared to be a 10- to 12-year-old female engaged in a sexual act.
An internet search connected the IP address to a residence on County Road 906 in Green Forest.
On May 10, a federal search warrant was obtained and Jackson received results connected to the username juniorperez329.
According to a probable-cause affidavit, SnapChat provided Jackson with four additional videos and five images, all of which Jackson determined to be child pornography.
On June 2, Jackson — along with officers from Homeland Security Investigations and the Eureka Springs, Green Forest and Berryville police departments — served a search warrant at the address on County Road 906 and made contact with Perez.
According to the affidavit, Perez confessed to videotaping an underage girl approximately two years before when she was approximately 9 years old.
Perez was then placed under arrest and transported to the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office.
The alleged victim was interviewed the same day at Grandma’s House Children’s Advocacy Center in Berryville. The girl described being touched inappropriately by Perez when she was as young as 8 and said she was glad when officers came because Perez “did a lot of horrible stuff.”
Homeland Security Investigations, the Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce, the Eureka Springs Police Department and the Green Forest Police Department investigated the case, according to U.S. Attorney Clay Fowlkes of the Western District of Arkansas.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Devon Still, a former deputy prosecuting attorney in Carroll County, prosecuted the case.
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