COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA – The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa today (Tuesday), said a Council Bluffs man, 34-year-old Brian Allen Christensen, was sentenced Monday, February 14th to 10-years (120 months) in prison, for Receipt of Child Pornography. His sentence was handed-down in Council Bluffs U-S District Court. Christensen’s term of imprisonment will be followed by five years of supervised release. According to court documents Christensen was found guilty by a trial jury on September 21, 2021.

In 2018 the Nebraska State Patrol conducted an undercover operation and identified a computer in Council Bluffs that shared images and videos using the Peer-2-Peer program. Iowa Internet Crimes against Children took over the investigation and found evidence Christensen had regularly searched for child pornography as early as February 2013.

The Nebraska State Patrol, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, Internet Crimes Against Children section investigated the case, which was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Offices for the Southern District of Iowa.