Retired CBP Officer Tony Alan Barker Had More Than 600 Images of Child Sexual Abuse Material. He Got Six Years.

Retired CBP Officer Tony Alan Barker Had More Than 600 Images of Child Sexual Abuse Material

Tony Alan Barker was a retired U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer living in Arizona.

In October 2009, federal investigators searched his home.

They found more than 600 illegal images involving children.

Barker was arrested and ultimately pleaded guilty to three counts of possessing child pornography, the statutory name of the offense.

In August 2010, he was sentenced to six years in federal prison.

And there is an important distinction here because the names are almost identical:

This is Tony Alan Barker, the retired Arizona CBP officer convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material.

He is not Tony L. Barker, the former high-ranking Border Patrol official who resigned in 2022 amid allegations that he pressured female subordinates for sexual favors.

Two different men.

Two different cases.

For Tony Alan Barker, the record is a criminal conviction: more than 600 images involving the sexual exploitation of children and six years in federal prison.