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 Terrytown,
LA – The U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force (GCRFTF),
working in conjunction with investigators from the U.S. Marshals Florida
Regional Fugitive Task Force (FRFTF) in Pensacola, FL arrested a Florida man
sought on multiple felony counts of possessing Child Pornography while
living in the Pensacola area. Martin Lyle Christianson, aka ‘Robert Allen’
of Cantonment, FL is wanted by the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office for
possessing images of child pornography, including images of child
molestation. At about 6:30 a.m. the U.S. Marshals GCRFTF arrested
Christianson without incident at a home on the 500 Block of Delmar Street in
Terrytown which is located outside of Gretna, LA. It is unknown how
Christianson is connected to the residents at that home.
Task Force investigators from the FRFTF were working on leads late yesterday
with investigators from the Florida Attorney General’s Office who is leading
the criminal investigation on the porn charges. The investigation started to
point toward the Louisiana area when they narrowed it down to the Terrytown
address early Saturday morning. The FRFTF then contacted the USMS Task Force
in New Orleans who immediately jumped on the lead and quickly apprehended
Christianson.
The warrant which was issued earlier this week charges Christianson, 58,
with 20 felony counts of Possession of Child Pornography. Each count holds a
$50,000 bond setting his total bond at $1,000,000. Christianson is also
wanted in Santa Ana, CA on a four-year-old warrant for Commercial Sex
charges. Investigators believed that Christianson fled the Pensacola area
earlier this week when an old ice cream truck that he was driving was found
abandoned in Mobile, AL. Christianson is in the Jefferson Parish Corrections
Center in Louisiana awaiting his extradition back to Escambia County, FL.
More information about the U.S. Marshals Service can be found on the web at
www.usmarshals.gov.
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