Sentenced: Ex-Lubbock Official Got Caught Watching Child Pornography Inside His City Office

[Sugar Cookie]

Justin David Musgraves, the former Deputy Director of Emergency Management, was caught with thousands of images and/or videos of child pornography according to newly released court documents.

Musgraves signed a plea deal on Friday, which was then entered into official court records on Monday.

Musgraves was both a City of Lubbock employee as well as a volunteer firefighter with the City of Shallowater. He had a tablet computer owned by Shallowater in his possession.

In September 2020, University Medical Center took temporary possession of the tablet for software installation. That’s when the images and videos were discovered.


“The Texas Rangers and a forensic examiner from Homeland Security Investigations examined the tablet and a micro-SD card that was in the tablet,” court records said. “Located on the tablet’s hard drive and the micro-SD card were approximately 5,213 photos and 1,597 videos of child pornography, including photos and videos of children ranging in ages between two years old to 17 years old.”


Investigators looked at surveillance video for a two-month period, and it showed Musgraves is “almost exclusive possession” of the tablet.


Musgraves admits in the plea agreement that he watched child pornography at times in his City of Lubbock office at the Lubbock Emergency Operations Center.


Musgraves resigned last week according to the City of Lubbock.


Prior to the plea deal, Musgraves, through his attorney, claimed he was innocent.

Ex-Lubbock official got caught watching child pornography inside his city office

LUBBOCK, Texas — Justin David Musgraves, the former Deputy Director of Emergency Management, was caught with thousands of images and/or videos of child pornography according to newly released…

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[Satanica]

Not very smart, is he? I wonder if he was concerned when he turned that tablet in for software installation.

 

[RavagesTheCabbages]

Not very smart, is he? I wonder if he was concerned when he turned that tablet in for software installation.

My thoughts exactly... apparently you don't need critical thinking skills to be the Deputy Director of Emergency Management. The only positive is he got caught.

 

[Symmachus]

He is not just evil, he is also very dimwitted for doing this on his work technologies that are owned by the city. He has messed up royally.

 

[Sejanus]

Deputy Director of Emergency Management?
Almost sounds like his job is about calling 911..."Derr, I push da 9 and da 1 and anudder 1 to call for dem flashy lights and da woo-woos".
How much do you want to bet the job title is practically made up and he got the gig through a member of the family or close friend.

Dude has serious issues if he is scoping that stuff out at work as well as storing it on municipal owned devices. All of this leads to serious questions about his personal judgment. That in itself speaks volumes of his incompetence to be a Deputy Director of anything. Maybe in prison they can give him a special title something that befits his moral code like, cocksock.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced that former Deputy Director of Emergency Management for the City of Lubbock, Justin Musgraves, was ordered to pay $79,000 in restitution, and he was ordered to serve more than 12 years in prison.

“According to plea papers, Mr. Musgraves, Lubbock’s Deputy Director of Emergency Management and a Shallowater Fire Department volunteer, admitted he possessed sexually explicit images of children as young as two years old,” a statement said.

Musgraves took a plea agreement in May.

Justin David Musgraves, 39, pleaded guilty in May to possession of pornography involving a prepubescent minor. He was sentenced today to 151 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix, who also ordered him to pay $57,000 in restitution to eight victims identified by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as known victims of child sexual abuse imagery, $17,000 to the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act’s reserve fund, and $5,000 to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act’s victim services fund ($79,000 total).

At his sentencing hearing, prosecutors noted that Mr. Musgraves meticulously sorted the files into folders and sub folders, mostly organized by victim. One folder was titled “TO UPLOAD.” It remains unclear how the defendant obtained his collection or where, if anywhere, he intended to upload his files.

Former Lubbock employee ordered to pay child-abuse victims $79,000 and serve prison time

LUBBOCK, Texas — Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced that former Deputy Director of Emergency Management for the City of Lubbock, Justin Musgraves, was ordered to pay $79,000 in restitu…

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