CBP Supervisor Steven Metz Pleaded Guilty After Investigators Found Thousands of Child Sexual Abuse Files

 

CBP Supervisor Steven Metz Had Thousands of Child Sexual Abuse Images and Videos. He Got Five Years.

Steven Metz spent 16 years working for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, eventually serving as a CBP supervisor in Hamburg, New York.

His federal law-enforcement career ended after investigators discovered an enormous collection of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, investigators found approximately 3,000 images and 70 videos in Metz's possession.

Metz pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, the statutory terminology used in the criminal case. He was terminated from his federal position following his arrest.

He was ultimately sentenced to five years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release.

The numbers can make cases like this sound abstract. They aren't.

Those thousands of files documented the sexual abuse and exploitation of actual children.

Steven Metz spent 16 years enforcing federal law. Then investigators found roughly 3,000 images and 70 videos of children being sexually abused in his possession. He pleaded guilty. He got five years.