Incident: Child Pornography
Date Reported: June 5, 2012
Location: 121 S. Commerce St. Centreville, MD.
Victim: State of Maryland
Arrested: Jeffrey Anthony Goad (50) of Millington MD
Charges: Possession of Child Pornography – Nine Counts
Narrative: Sheriff Gary Hofmann reports that on November 2, 2012 Jeffrey Anthony Goad of Millington MD was sentenced to eight years to serve in the Maryland Department of Corrections based on his guilty plea of Possession of Child Pornography.
On June 5, 2012 the Queen Anne’s County Office of the Sheriff received an anonymous complaint of someone possibly searching for child pornography on a computer at the Centreville Branch of the Queen Anne’s County Public Library. The anonymous complaint reported that Jeffrey Goad was using a public access computer in the library to look up images of possible child pornography. D/Cpl. S. Stouffer responded and conducted surveillance on Jeffrey Goad while Goad was seated at a public access computer terminal. Subsequently D/Cpl. Stouffer observed suspicious images on the computer being used by Goad. D/Cpl. Stouffer and Det. Gardner made contact with Goad and seized Goad’s personal items at the computer terminal. A search warrant was obtained for Goad’s personal items and the search warrant was executed on June 11, 2012 which resulted in the seizure of seven photographs and two videos containing suspected child pornography.
On June 18, 2012 Jeffrey Anthony Goad turned himself into the Office of the Sheriff to be served with an arrest warrant from the Maryland Department of Parole and Probation and a second arrest warrant through the Queen Anne’s County District Court for the images and videos of suspected child pornography. Sheriff Hofmann reports that at the time of Goad’s arrest Goad was a registered sex offender in Queen Anne’s County Maryland.
Deputy: D/Cpl. Stephen Stouffer
Assisted By: Lt. D. Embert, D/Sgt. B. Layton, Dfc. L. Becker, The Office of the State’s Attorney for Queen Anne’s County, The US Department of Homeland Security Immigration & Customs Enforcement and the Queen Anne’s County Department of Emergency Services.
Case Number: 12-16274