For nearly six years, Stanley Simms, who was wanted on charges related to possessing and distributing child pornography, managed to elude federal authorities.
That was until this week, when authorities caught up with the fugitive in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, the FBI said Thursday.
Sims, 53, who was born in New York and lived in Sunrise since the early 1990s, was deported back to the United States by the U.S. Marshals Service. On Thursday he made his first appearance in a Miami federal court and will have a detention hearing next week.
Simms first came to the attention of FBI special agent Daniel Johns on Sept. 26, 2012, when he was flagged to a computer on a file sharing network that had 15 files of suspected child pornography images and videos. The files carried names such as “real dad & toddler daughter sex” and “hussyfan my step daughter” and “chavito teniendo sexo con su amiga” (Chavito having sex with her friend), according to the criminal complaint from June 7, 2013.
Over the next two days, Johns, the complaint says, downloaded nine files that showed, among other things, a grown man “lying on top of a prepubescent female child and engaging in sexual intercourse”; a naked girl under the age of 12 performing oral sex on a grown man, then holding a gun to her own head while in a bed; and a naked girl under 12 being fondled by an adult male.
The internet provider address traced back to an account registered to Simms’ brother, who owned the East Aragon Boulevard house in Sunrise where Simms lived. The same went for a second IP address from which special agent Jason Ginther downloaded 12 files of similar content on Feb. 28, 2013, and March 4.
A database kept by law enforcement of IP addresses of people suspected of sharing child pornography files said the first address was associated with 85 “unique files of interest.” The second address was linked to 145 such files.
While the East Aragon Boulevard house belonged to Simms’ brother, the green 2005 BMW that FBI agents saw parked in the garage was registered to Stanley Simms. And Stanley Simms was the only one at home when the FBI swept in with a search warrant at 6:42 a.m. on June 7, 2013.
Simms said he used the file sharing program to download movies and pornography, the latter by the batch. Then, he told agents, he’d delete the files he didn’t want. He said he’d “accidentally” downloaded child pornography in some batches and, when he did, “he usually deleted it and that he had recently deleted some files.”
But “when asked if agents would find files depicting child pornography on his computer, Simms stated that he did not want to say anything that would get him in trouble, that he had been downloading pornography regularly for years and ‘whatever it is, it is.’ ”
What it was, the complaint said: a home-built computer with the file sharing program with registry search terms such as “12y,” “Hussy,” “dad,” “mom bath,” “daughter” and “incest.” Also, there was an eight GB thumb drive on a red lanyard in Simms’ bedroom that had at least four child pornography videos.
After the warrant for his arrest, Simms disappeared. The FBI issued a “wanted poster” saying Simms would “frequent adult entertainment clubs in South Florida, particularly in Broward County, and he has reportedly operated an escort business.”
The poster also said Simms had “ties to Jamaica and [was] known to travel there. Also, Simms has been known to travel to the Bahamas.”
In addition to the child pornography charges, the poster said Simms was wanted for questioning related to multiple sexual assaults of adult females who were possibly drugged in South Florida around December 2012.
Lock his ass up and throw away the keys.
Thanks to the law enforcement officers who pursued this suspect. Please note that some of Jamaicas’ government and officials are condoning paedophilia behaviour and harbouring the suspects, sometimes they themselves are directly try involved. Continue the good work.