In federal court today, a Lowndes County man pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.
Robert Warren Triplett Jr., 57, of 181 Golding Road was arrested in October on charges of activities regarding materials constituting or containing child pornography.
Triplett, whose trial on state charges of child pornography this week was continued in Lowndes County Circuit Court, pleaded guilty on the federal charges this morning before Chief Justice Michael Mills.
According to the plea agreement, Triplett pleaded guilty to count one of the federal indictment, which charged “possession of a computer containing images of child pornography that had been shipped and transported in interstate commerce by means of computers and that were produced using materials that had been mailed, shipped and transported in interstate and foreign commerce.”
In exchange for the guilty plea, Triplett will not be charged with “any other federal offenses arising from or related to the possession of child pornography charge,” according to the plea agreement.
Sentencing is pending.
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