For Immediate Release
November 3, 2008
FORMER SENIOR MASTER SERGEANT IN UNITED STATES AIR FORCE RECEIVES
48 MONTH SENTENCE FOR POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today
that on October 31, 2008, BRUCE E. WALKER, age 49, of Belleville, Illinois, was sentenced to serve
a forty-eight (48) month term of imprisonment following his conviction for Possession of Child
Pornography. WALKER has been in custody since he entered a guilty plea on November 30, 2007.
The violation was alleged to have occurred on February 28, 2007, in St. Clair County, Illinois. At
the time of the offense, WALKER was a Senior Master Sergeant in the United States Air Force.
Following release from imprisonment, WALKER will be on supervised release for ten years.
He will also be required to register as a sex offender.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Metro-East Cyber Crime and
Analysis Task Force and the Illinois Attorney General’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
Task force members participating in the investigation included the Belleville Police Department, the
Illinois Department of Corrections, and the Alton Police Department. The case was prosecuted by
Assistant United States Attorney Suzanne M. Garrison.
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