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Former USBP agent pleads guilty to child porn charges


Leakey resident Vernon Lee Millican, 37, formerly a U.S. Border Patrol agent stationed in Uvalde, has admitted to producing and possessing child pornography.

Millican, who had been employed with the federal agency for nine years before his arrest in January, appeared Thursday in a federal courtroom in San Antonio before U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Bemporad to plead guilty to one count of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.

By pleading guilty, Millican admitted that between April 2015 and June 2018, he used multiple devices to produce and possess images and videos of himself sexually assaulting a prepubescent minor; and depicting the minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

Millican was arrested on Jan. 31 after a federal search warrant was executed at his home. He hassince remained in federal custody. He faces between 15 and 30 years in federal prison. Sentencing is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Jan. 23, 2020.

FBI agents, Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General, and the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon, investigated with help from the Real County Sheriff’s Office.

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