Harold “H.L.” Moody, a onetime rising star in the Democratic Party was indicted for distributing child pornography and smoking methamphetamine at work. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
Jason Bennett, a special agent for Homeland Security Investigations, said an agent who was participating in an undercover capacity in a video-conferencing application used by child pornographers took “screen shots” of Moody sitting at his desk and conversing with others in the secret chatroom on more than one occasion between Aug. 29 and Oct. 12.
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Bennett’s testimony helped convince a federal judge to order Moody to remain in federal custody until his trial on two counts of receipt of child pornography, three counts of distribution of child pornography and a single count of conspiring to advertise child pornography.
The trial is tentatively set to begin in January.
The details surrounding Moody’s arrest emerged during a hearing at which his attorney, Chris Tarver of the federal public defender’s office, sought to have him released pending trial. Tarver asked that Moody be allowed to return to the downtown Little Rock apartment he shares with his partner or that he be committed to an in-patient drug-treatment facility.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Kristin Bryant persuaded the judge that Moody was a danger to the community and posed a flight risk.
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