East Texan Guilty of Producing Child Pornography

TYLER — A 51-year-old Longview man has pleaded guilty to child exploitation violations in the East Texas. Mitchell Duane Porter pleaded guilty to production of child pornography in an appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith K. Guthrie.

According to information presented in court, on August 26, 2011, a federal search warrant was executed at Porter’s residence on Smelley Road in Longview. Several computers, cameras, and other forms of digital media and media storage devices were seized during the search. A forensic analysis of the seized items revealed over a thousand images of child pornography. Porter took approximately 1,050 pictures of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Some of the images depicted prepubescent children under the age of 12 years engaged to sexually explicit conduct, and some of the images involved the actual commission of a sexual act. A federal grand jury returned an indictment in September of last year, charging Porter with the federal violations.