Guilty of moving child porn
Former South Lake Tahoe fire captain pleads guilty to transporting child porn from Butte County
Mark McLeod Wygant, a 46-year-old former South Lake Tahoe fire captain who lived in Chico, recently pleaded guilty to transporting child pornography, according to a press release from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.
Wygant (pictured) was arrested in January 2015 after a flash drive containing more than 5,000 images and 50 videos was found in a locker in a South Lake Tahoe fire station, according to the CN&R’s archives. The content included girls estimated to be between 4 and 13 years old and several videos of a girl for whom Wygant was legally responsible.
On Dec. 16, he pleaded guilty to transporting the content from Butte County to South Lake Tahoe. Wygant is set for sentencing in March and faces a minimum of five years and a maximum of 20 years in prison, along with a $250,000 fine.
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