Seattle – A 40-year-old Seattle man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to ten years in prison and fifteen years of supervised release for possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran.  NOLAN PAUL CYRE, was on probation for a state sex crime in April 2018, when hundreds of images of child pornography were discovered on his electronic devices.  At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik told CYRE, “You have an addiction, an attraction to using young children as sexual objects…. You have a lot of work to do.”

According to records filed in the case, in February 2016, CYRE was sentenced in King County Superior court to 34 months in prison for attempted commercial sexual abuse of a minor.  In that case, CYRE attempted to pay a 15-year-old for sex acts.   As part of his probation following the prison term, CYRE was prohibited from possessing electronic devices that could access the internet.  On a visit to his residence, probation officers noticed a laptop and other prohibited devices.  The devices were seized and forensically analyzed by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and were found to contain hundreds of images and movies of child sexual abuse.  The investigation revealed that the laptop contained 113 image files and 48 video files of known victims of child pornography. 

CYRE also has a 2011 arrest and military court conviction for possession of child pornography.

Judge Lasnik ordered him to pay $12,000 in restitution to the six victims identified in the child pornography on the laptop.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) and the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC). 

The case was prosecuted by Special Assistant United States Attorney Cecelia Gregson.  Ms. Gregson is a Senior Deputy King County Prosecutor specially designated to prosecute child exploitation cases in federal court.