A former Navy detective sentenced earlier this year for using excessive force on a detained sailor now faces another charge – attempting to produce child pornography.
Jonathan Christopher Laroche, 41, of Spring Valley, is accused in a complaint filed in federal court of describing sexually abusing a child and recording the abuse in a series of online messages.
He was arrested on Wednesday in the new case, weeks before he was slated to report to prison to begin his 15-month sentence in the excessive force case.
Laroche pleaded guilty and was sentenced for choking a Navy sailor at Naval Base San Diego in late 2023 to the point of unconsciousness. The victim, prosecutors said. was intoxicated, not resisting and handcuffed to a bench.
The defendant also was sentenced for lying on his application to the Navy’s Criminal Investigations Division by concealing several prior excessive force incidents that led to his resignation from his position as an officer with the El Cajon Police Department.
In the latest case, an affidavit authored by a San Diego-based Homeland Security Investigations agent states that an email address used by Laroche was identified by law enforcement officials in the Netherlands. They were probing a darknet email provider being utilized to share content that depicted child sex abuse.
One darknet user told Laroche they ran a business that paid people tens of thousands of dollars to exchange the content.
Laroche allegedly uploaded files that law enforcement believe depict the sexual abuse of a child. Investigators, however, are currently “not in possession of the specific files he uploaded on the darknet,” the affidavit states.
Other evidence cited in the document include records of sex toy and child clothing purchases allegedly made by Laroche, which were delivered to his home. The affidavit also states that law enforcement confirmed numerous details Laroche allegedly discussed in the messages and matched them with real-life events and people.
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