When it comes to stopping child porn there is a group of people on the front lines you might not even know about. It is the United States Postal Service (USPS).
In the upper offices of the downtown Milwaukee main Post Office, several men and women are at work looking to stop crime. The postal inspectors deal with any crime that can occur through the mail.
"We execute search warrants, we make arrests, we can swear out warrants, we can do everything along those lines other federal agents can do," says Francis Pilon, USPS Postal Inspector Team Leader.
They even have specially trained postal inspectors that are targeting people looking to buy and sell these disturbing images through the mail.
A postal inspector just helped arrest a West Allis man for three counts of possession of child porn. The agency can't speak specifically about that case, but say this is something they do every day.
"Some of the individuals today will still ship items like CDs, DVDs of that nature through the mail because they think it's more secure because a lot of the online stuff is being monitored," Pilon says.
Court documents show postal inspector Andrew Jaloweic found that Larry Shultz, 70, had been a repeat customer for a Canadian company that was shut down for distributing child porn. The postal inspector and a state agent went to Shultz's home and questioned him.
Shultz reportedly said, "He initially ordered some videos, liked the content, as it was sexually arousing to him."
Those video had girls and boys as young as 7 years old engaging in sexually explicit conduct. He told a state agent he was sexually attracted to children.
Shultz admitted to investigators, "... The only reason he stopped purchasing the videos, was because his computer broke, and no longer had access to the Internet to place further orders."
TODAY’S TMJ4 went to Shutlz's home to ask him about the charges. There was no response. He is due in court Tuesday, May 17 for a preliminary hearing.
