Wichita Trucker Sentenced to More Than 12 Years

Topics:  Joshua David Bellah

U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Kansas
May 22, 2014

WICHITA, KS—A truck driver from Wichita was sentenced Thursday to 150 months in federal prison for transporting child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.

Joshua David Bellah, 40, Wichita, Kansas, pleaded guilty to one count of interstate transportation of child pornography. In his plea, he admitted that on October 22, 2013, he traveled from Oklahoma to Kansas with laptops containing several thousand images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. He had previously used a variety of free e-mail accounts to obtain and exchange child pornography while he was traveling as an over-the-road truck driver.

Grissom commended the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, the FBI, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Hart for their work on the case.