By Mike Romero
A Springville man, Jared M. Boyce, has admitted to possessing child pornography while residing in Utah County. Boyce, 28, pleaded guilty in April to nine counts of second-degree felony charges for sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of a class A misdemeanor for dealing in harmful material to a minor. Court records indicate that the remaining felony charges were dismissed with prejudice.
The investigation began on July 11, 2022, when the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized Boyce’s phone as part of an unrelated inquiry. Subsequently, FBI agents obtained a search warrant for Boyce’s phone and discovered 22 explicit images involving child pornography.
During a subsequent police interview, Boyce confessed to possessing and accessing the illicit images within Utah County. He also admitted to engaging in sexually themed conversations about children in an online chatroom, sharing sexually explicit images of children, and maintaining an ongoing conversation with a 16-year-old girl to whom he sent explicit images of himself.
In addition to the child pornography charges, Boyce remains under investigation for his involvement with Patriot Front. He was one of 31 individuals arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to riot at an LGBTQ pride event in Idaho in June 2022. The charges related to the Idaho incident are pending in Kootenai County.
Boyce is currently facing a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison for the child pornography charges and is scheduled for sentencing Tomorrow.
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