The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office has charged Joseph Stevens (Age 57 of Yucaipa) with possessing child pornography.
CASE SYNOPSIS
On Thursday, July 30, 2020, personnel from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s Crimes Against Children Detail and the Hi-Tech Crime Detail served a search warrant in the 12000 block of 14th Street in Yucaipa. Joseph Arlen Stevens was arrested.
Our office has reviewed this case and charged Stevens with violating the following sections of the California Penal Code:
Penal Code Section 311.11(a) – Possession of Child or Youth Pornography
Every person who knowingly possesses or controls any matter, representation of information, data, or image, including, but not limited to, any film, filmstrip, photograph, negative, slide, photocopy, videotape, video laser disc, computer hardware, computer software, computer floppy disc, data storage media, CD-ROM, or computer-generated equipment or any other computer-generated image that contains or incorporates in any manner, any film or filmstrip, the production of which involves the use of a person under 18 years of age, knowing that the matter depicts a person under 18 years of age personally engaging in or simulating sexual conduct, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 311.4, is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or a county jail for up to one year, or by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or by both the fine and imprisonment.
Penal Code Section 311.1 – Obscene Matter Depicting Persons Under 18
Every person who knowingly sends or causes to be sent, or brings or causes to be brought, into this state for sale or distribution, or in this state possesses, prepares, publishes, produces, develops, duplicates, or prints any representation of information, data, or image, including, but not limited to, any film, filmstrip, photograph, negative, slide, photocopy, videotape, video laser disc, computer hardware, computer software, computer floppy disc, data storage media, CD-ROM, or computer-generated equipment or any other computer-generated image that contains or incorporates in any manner, any film or filmstrip, with intent to distribute or to exhibit to, or to exchange with, others, or who offers to distribute, distributes, or exhibits to, or exchanges with, others, any obscene matter, knowing that the matter depicts a person under the age of 18 years personally engaging in or personally simulating sexual conduct, as defined in Section 311.4, shall be punished either by imprisonment in the county jail for up to one year, by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both the fine and imprisonment, or by imprisonment in the state prison, by a fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by the fine and imprisonment.
CASE INFORMATION
DA Case Number: 2020-00-0035784
Court Case Number: FSB20002574
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