Overview

• A federal jury found 37-year-old Kyle Travis Colton guilty of receiving child pornography after a one-day trial in Sacramento.
• FBI agents recovered a laptop at Colton’s Citrus Heights home containing copious images and videos of child sexual abuse downloaded between July 2022 and December 2023.
• Prosecutors presented evidence of user-generated bookmarks linking to known child pornography sites along with material saved on his desktop and downloads folder.
• Colton, who pleaded guilty to disorderly and disruptive conduct in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021, was pardoned by President Donald Trump before his scheduled sentencing for those offenses.
• He remains in federal custody awaiting an October 27 sentencing before U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd under the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Childhood initiative.