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Karate Instructor Pleads Guilty to Child Porn Charges
Monday, Nov 3, 2008 | Updated 2:18 PM PDT
Source: Karate Instructor Pleads Guilty to Child Porn Charges | NBC 7 San Diego
A karate instructor pleads guilty to child porn charges.
An East County man admits to having more than 600 computer images of minors, including a sexually explicit video, federal officials said.
William J. Hazlitt, 27, faces up to 10 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine and may have to register as a sex offender when he is sentenced in January. Hazlitt was a karate instructor at HT Martial Arts, located at 1520 Main St. in Ramona, which he co-owned.
U.S. Attorney Alessandra P. Serano said authorities began investigating Hazlitt after an FBI special agent in Richmond, Va., began looking into LimeWire, a peer-to-peer file sharing. The agent said Hazlitt's name popped up for downloading hundreds of images.
Source: Karate Instructor Pleads Guilty to Child Porn Charges | NBC 7 San Diego
Karate Instructor Pleads Guilty to Child Porn Charges
Monday, Nov 3, 2008 | Updated 2:18 PM PDT
Source: Karate Instructor Pleads Guilty to Child Porn Charges | NBC 7 San Diego
A karate instructor pleads guilty to child porn charges.
An East County man admits to having more than 600 computer images of minors, including a sexually explicit video, federal officials said.
William J. Hazlitt, 27, faces up to 10 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine and may have to register as a sex offender when he is sentenced in January. Hazlitt was a karate instructor at HT Martial Arts, located at 1520 Main St. in Ramona, which he co-owned.
U.S. Attorney Alessandra P. Serano said authorities began investigating Hazlitt after an FBI special agent in Richmond, Va., began looking into LimeWire, a peer-to-peer file sharing. The agent said Hazlitt's name popped up for downloading hundreds of images.
Source: Karate Instructor Pleads Guilty to Child Porn Charges | NBC 7 San Diego
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Bond set for martial arts studio co-owner
UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM
6:03 p.m. September 12, 2008
SAN DIEGO – Bond was set at $150,000 Friday in federal court for the co-owner of a Ramona martial arts studio who is charged with possession of child pornography.
William Joseph Hazlitt, 27, was arrested in Ramona Wednesday by FBI agents and San Diego County sheriff's deputies.
According to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday, Hazlitt possessed a computer containing images of child pornography.
During the execution of a search warrant, Hazlitt told FBI agents and other law-enforcement authorities that he “was stimulated by the images of kids as young as 5 or 6 years old,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alessandra P. Serano, who is prosecuting the case, said following the Friday court hearing.
Hazlitt is scheduled to appear Sept. 25 for a preliminary hearing, but Serano said there may be a request for a continuance.
Serano said Hazlitt has “denied any inappropriate touching” of children he worked with, and authorities “don't have any evidence” of such.
“But in these types of cases, if we have a person who is regularly around children, they will follow up and do an investigation just to be sure,” she said.
Breaking News Team: (619) 293-1010; [email protected]
Bond set for martial arts studio co-owner
UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM
6:03 p.m. September 12, 2008
SAN DIEGO – Bond was set at $150,000 Friday in federal court for the co-owner of a Ramona martial arts studio who is charged with possession of child pornography.
William Joseph Hazlitt, 27, was arrested in Ramona Wednesday by FBI agents and San Diego County sheriff's deputies.
According to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday, Hazlitt possessed a computer containing images of child pornography.
During the execution of a search warrant, Hazlitt told FBI agents and other law-enforcement authorities that he “was stimulated by the images of kids as young as 5 or 6 years old,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alessandra P. Serano, who is prosecuting the case, said following the Friday court hearing.
Hazlitt is scheduled to appear Sept. 25 for a preliminary hearing, but Serano said there may be a request for a continuance.
Serano said Hazlitt has “denied any inappropriate touching” of children he worked with, and authorities “don't have any evidence” of such.
“But in these types of cases, if we have a person who is regularly around children, they will follow up and do an investigation just to be sure,” she said.
Breaking News Team: (619) 293-1010; [email protected]