Granite City Man Sentenced for Possession of Child Pornography (Federal Bureau of Investigation - Springfield Field Office)

(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Springfield Field Office) Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on March 27, 2015, Steven W. Beckman, 64, Granite City, IL, was sentenced for Possession of Visual Depictions of Prepubescent Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct. Beckman, who had been convicted in the Southern District of Illinois in 2006 for Receiving Child Pornography through the U.S. Mail and Possession of Child Pornography, received an increased penalty of a mandatory minimum sentence of 120 months in federal prison because of these...