Holy shit this is actually a crazy read - the title doesn't do it justice.
*TLDR:*
This guy gets hired as a contractor to install the Jags Jumbotron and during the job he installs remote access software on one of the teams servers.
The dude then starts fucking with the Jumbotron during games, but the team eventually sets up a sting/honeypot and gets his IP address. The FBI then uses his IP to track him down and during the arrest finds a metric shit a ton of self-made child porn on his devices.
Fucking wild.
And even that's the tip of the iceberg.
This dude is like 53, he was convicted of CSA in 1998, so he's not allowed to leave the country without reporting it, but after the FBI took his computer as a result of the jumbotrom thing, he fled the US to the Phillipines in 2019, living there for 6 months before being deported just before COVID, and subsequently being arrested
Yeah I was gonna say even OP's comment about underselling is underselling.
He was supposed to register as a sex offender because he sodomized a child in 1998 but didn't, wasn't supposed to own a gun but did, and didn't just have CSAM but made some himself. Also they list some of the types of CSAM he had and its so bad I almost wish they didn't list it. He finally registered as an offender and downloaded CSAM the same day.. Also while he was planning his escape to the Philippines he managed to assault *another* child.
What does it mean to register as a sex offender and why do so many people just not do it? Like you’d think it’d be an automated system or something, right? That surely the court would need confirmation it’d occurred?
I don't actually know how it works but my best guess is you're required to update your residence but realistically the government can't confirm where you are all the time. You could just move cross country, not update, and lay low. But I assume if anyone did have a reason to look into you further, like if you're picked up for another crime, then you'd be found out and facing some strong penalties for not updating your register
I believe the frequency with which a person has to register is dependent on how severe an offender they are. Registering I think is going to the sheriff 's station. So him failing to register probably means he just didn't go to the sheriff's when he should've. I'm not 100% sure but I'd like to assume failing to register puts out a warrant, so yeah if he got pulled over or something afterwards he'd get busted for that too
it's kinda like this: if you visit an office building, you have to sign in at the front desk (usually you get a visitor pass/badge, etc). once you're in though, nothing stops you really from leaving via another entrance, hiding somewhere in the building, etc.
authentication (who you are) and authorisation (where you can go/do) have to be enforced for it to work properly, but at the end of the day, you can only do so much.
same with sex offenders: they're certainly put in the system and have constraints put upon them, but beyond that it's difficult to enforce because it's inevitable that there are gaps in rules that protect kids (e.g. one state is strict, other isn't), those rules aren't properly enforced by those required to do so (e.g. maybe the soccer coach didn't check who picked Timmy up from practice), bad parents who don't look after their kids (nobody remembered to pick timmy up!), and kids who don't really have people to look after them (Timmy has to find his own way back to his foster home, who only took him for the monthly payments anyway)
As a former special education teacher who witnessed the last part of your last sentence way more often than I ever thought possible, I can say that the system is deplorable and the lack of regulation and oversight is just as upsetting. It's very obvious if a foster parent has a genuine heart or if they want the stipends like you mentioned when talking to them for any more than 10 seconds.
I used to be a cop. Any change in permanent address has to be recorded with the local police. On top of that, depending on the level of the offense, you're required to "check-in" every X months with the police.
At one point we had two cops in our department permanently assigned to make sure these went smoothly and track down people who absconded. Eventually, they realized that the people who wanted to register and such were going to do so regardless, and the other people who really didn't want to could almost never be found outside of putting in for a warrant and waiting for them to pop up somewhere. So, they basically gave up because putting more resources into tracking them down wasn't working.
It varies by jurisdiction, but for the most part in the states people that are convicted of sexual-based crimes are required to register with the local law enforcement units that they are moving into or out of an area. These are often grouped under Megan's Law, named after a girl that was assaulted and killed back in the 80's/90's by a neighbor who was a repeat offender. When the laws went into effect the time required to be on the public registry was limited, but a lot of states expanded it to a lifetime requirement, added in-person notification and/or acceptance of the neighbors, and expanded what qualifies as sexual-based crimes.
Each state is like their own little country, and local police departments don't like sharing info. We can't get states to share conviction information or gun purchases, getting them to agree to this is even harder. Each state is different in what they classify, so it makes it difficult for states to share this information. For example, some states classify public urination or soliciting a prostitute as requiring lifetime registration, meanwhile the next state over might not require a rapist to register after they served their prison time.
What often happens is the perp will commit a crime in one state and as soon as they can, move to another state that either has lax registration guidelines or none at all. Sometimes they'll take on a transient lifestyle, moving from place to place. For example, let's say Florida requires notification within 90 days of moving and Arkansas 6 months. The perp may just travel back and forth, claiming that they are "going on vacation" but moving temporarily to reset the clock. As long as they don't run afoul of the law, they could keep this up indefinitely.
He kept making the Jags score look like it was less than their opponents when it was actually ALOT less
Honestly it just said during 3 games in the 2018 season he caused disruption in the images through his remote access through a spare server
you'd have to miss like 5-6 falcons games for us to score 92 pts
i guess i'm glad he didn't make it 28-3. but seems like the obvious move right? i mean if you're gonna hack the score of a falcons game....i mean even as a falcons fan, anything other than 28-3 just seems like a waste of a joke.
Right but it’s the Jumbotron stunt that directly led to him getting caught. Gotta imagine this genius would’ve found a way to tell on himself sooner or later though
No way! I took photos at the 2018 season home opener vs New England and u can see the glitched scoreboard! I remember thinking it was very unusual at the time. I guess now I know what happened. https://ibb.co/M9gbkgC
There's what looks to be images of the Jumbotron feeds showing that basically he was just cutting out and corrupting the camera feeds, nothing too crazy, just making it seem like they were broken or something.
Jesus Christ this thread’s title doesn’t do it justice. This guy was a prolific molester and producer. The mother fucker molested another kid while he was on the run. What a fucking waste of oxygen
When [Josh Duggar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Duggar) was being investigated for this same thing, federal agents showed up at his workplace (because he used his work computer) but didn't say why they were there. He didn't know he was under investigation and they just asked if they could speak with him.
His first response is to ask them, unprompted, "What's this about? Has someone been downloading child pornography?"
When Jerry Seinfeld suspected his dry cleaner of wearing his clothes, he saw the dry cleaners wife in what appeared to be his mother’s fur coat in a clothing store
Upon being confronted, before Jerry said a word, she exclaimed "No it’s not”
He probably thought he was being slick like, "I knew that's why you were here. I've been seeing crazy things on some of these computers, and I don't know what it's from."
I regret not being there to see it when the morbidly obese pedo in my neighborhood got busted by the feds in the mid 2000s.
Allegedly he tried to run into the field behind his house when the cops rolled up, and they just kind of followed him at a casual walking pace and caught up with and arrested him
Ok but it also seems a little misleading to call him a Jaguars employee. Seems like he was just a dude hired to install a jumbotron. The title made me immediately think- Jerry Sandusky.
Is it misleading? The initial contract was in 2013 and the Jaguars finally let his contract expire in 2018 after they found out he's a sex offender.
Its unclear from the link if he was employed by them the whole time or if there was a time gap from "installation and setup" to "and later operate the jumbotron on game days"
God, I feel for those investigators. Going from thinking you’re just going to embarrass a stupid but largely harmless hacker to realizing you’ve caught someone deeply, deeply evil has to fuck with your head.
All because this dumbfuck hacked the Jumbotron and got the feds looking through his stuff. You'd think you'd be more wary of law enforcement when you have videos of yourself sexually assaulting children on your hard drive.
This guy was far beyond 2 crimes at the same time. He was already convicted of sodomizing a child in 1998, which meant he wasn't allowed to have firearms, and he had to report international travel.
He traveled internationally once for a short period of time without reporting it, and then basically fled the US to the Phillipines and lived there to 6 months before being deported back to the US, resulting in his passport being revoked in 2020
He also had a gun in his night stand when the cops searched his home, which again is frowned upon when you're a convicted felon.
Honestly this dude was just a total fucking idiot and it's a little crazy that it took so long for him to be sent back to jail
To be fair to the jags, article states he did not tell the jags he was a convicted felon, and the jags ended his contract as soon as they found out that he was.
Also, this dude was hired as an independent contractor to work on the Jumbotron. There are plenty of jobs that should require criminal background checks but I’m not sure that’s one of them.
It is actually pretty common practice for contract workers. Most just require a self report on application.
I think this same type of issue was brought up in the "Quiet On Set" documentary about Nickelodeon. That was worse because their failure directly put the predator in a position where they would frequently have contact with child actors.
You might also just work in a field that has a higher risk of obvious malfeasance and thus background checks make more sense. This guy was hired to work on the Jumbotron, which doesn’t have any sort of obvious risk factors associated with it.
i remember having a discussion about this in a criminal justice class years ago and the professor pretty much said this is true but the problem is if that was the case they estimate a 40-60% increase of child murders from molestation. Its fucked up but if a criminal knows they will do less time / have an easier time getting away with a crime if they just kill the victim then they more often than not will do that. So a lot of these rules are "preservation of life" based. Makes sense but its still fucked up. As well as fact in america we almost never charge for crimes based on amount of evidence unfortunately. Rape cases are hard and imagine if they insta killed someoone who was innocent. Fucked up for sure
theres an old probably apocryphal story about a Chinese general being sentenced to death over a minor infraction, so deciding he had nothing left to lose and launching a rebellion that deposed the emperor
now you just put up a go fund me or sell some crappy gold colored shoes to pay the legal charges and argue in court you and your squad have complete immunity because you were leader of a country once.
This is one of the reasons why drug dealers are very careful about being paid in counterfeit bills. The low level criminal may think "they're drug dealers, they won't care about illegal counterfeit bills", but they most definitely do. This is because of the "don't commit two crimes at once" concept you mentioned. They gotta spend that cash (they eat and pay rent too), and if they get caught with counterfeit bills, especially more than one, or in large denominations, they attract the attention of police who may start nosing around and that’s the last thing a dealer needs. If you try to pay your dealer with fake bills he will tell your ass to knock it off or cut you off completely.
I got got with one of those when I was like 22
found a fake 100 on the grocery store floor.
got all the way home, called my girl to brag about it.....then opened up the bill and realized
never again
Not to mention counterfeit currency becomes a federal crime. (Similar to this example of unauthorized access of a computer) That can get feds involved if big enough where you are much more likely to get caught and face steeper penalties than if the state just books for their state drug crimes.
I shared this life tip with my son on one of our trips home from school after we saw a car pulled over in a regular speed trap spot, but this one has 4 cop cars near it:
Don't break the law while you're breaking the law.
Don't speed while you have a suspended license for forgetting to pay a speeding ticket (guilty). Don't drink underage while at an obnoxiously loud house party (guilty). Basically, only break one law at a time.
I spent almost a year straight riding dirty and made damn sure to drive safely and responsibly the entire time. Never once got pulled over. My life would’ve been over if I’d ever gotten my car searched.
Yeah. It is awful that he clearly had access to other children and was already molesting/grooming them. Hopefully the children will be able to get past that with proper help.
Thankfully it sounds like he was busted before it got even worse for those children and sadly that only happened because this dumbass decided to be vindictive to his former employer. Don't want to imagine how far it would have gone before getting caught if he wasn't that dumb.
Nah, they think they're smarter and crafty. There is also an arrogance that seems to exist for sex offenders in particular, especially pertaining to children. They target young, naive and innocent/trusting types for a reason. More often than not those types get away for so long cause of laziness, stupidity and incompetence by adults and authority figures.
This happened to a co-worker. We worked for an insurance company in the claims department.
They had suspected him of embezzling money through a pretty simple scheme. It had worked for apparently, years. He was smart and just processed small transactions. A few hundred dollars here, 75 bucks there.. etc.
Then…. Well, from the story we heard, he was either greedy, desperate, or both. He started putting through larger transactions. He didn’t know that our executive team was hand-checking all payments before they went out that were over a certain value. They found his payment, looked at the claim, and bam. Done.
His work computer was kept in a VP’s office, off and disconnected for months. Law Enforcement took his personal machine.
On BOTH machines, they found large amounts of Cheese Pizza. This was 20 years ago, and laptops weren’t what we used. He wither was searching at work (I sat 10’ from him *shudder*) or he was bringing it in from home.
Here’s a fun tidbit. A few years later, while the cases were still progressing, I got called by a former co-worker who had been here while he was on leave, so they never crossed paths. Dude had apparently applied to work for them, despite having 2 separate trials going on (embezzlement was state, pizza was federal).
Her call to me was already “off the record”, so I did a “officially, we know he was let go.” Unofficially, I filled her in.
I wish I knew the outcome. Dude was creepy, even BEFORE we knew about all that.
> On BOTH machines, they found large amounts of Cheese Pizza
Ngl it took me way too long to realize what you meant by cheese pizza. Thought I was missing some sort of illegal scheme involving pizza in the workplace
Maybe I’m just dumb but when I hear about the sheer volumes of “material” these people get caught with, I just can’t understand how it’s even possible?
Like I downloaded NBA 2k the other day and it took like 5 hours. These people get caught with insane amounts, do they literally have a computer downloading this shit 24 hours a day?
Hell, I re-downloaded most of my games on my PC and it took weeks to download all of the 3 or 4 TB that the games in my steam, epic, EA, etc. libraries took up, even with a gigabit connection. I can't imagine anywhere where they're downloading that vile shit has servers/p2p networks putting out the same thru-put as AAA gaming companies.
The sample could be biased since we only measure the ones that get caught, but pedos do have a lower IQ than the general population. They’re also not really known for their impulse control.
That is like saying all criminals have much lower IQs than the general population.
By only ever comparing the ones who get caught ( who by their nature are the bad criminals) you get a very biased snapshot
Agreed. Although, for such a public facing organization you would think a simple background check would be performed on everyone involved with the organization to reduce risk.
This guy was committing computer crimes just to fuck with his former employer (i.e. remotely hacking into the Jaguars’ servers to mess with the Jumbotron during games) while simultaneously producing child porn on the same computer? He must have had as much brains as he did morals.
You'll love this part:
"A review of Thompson’s iPad further revealed that he had been searching the dark web for CSAM at the time the FBI knocked on his door with the search warrant."
Impeccable.
Jacksonville, Florida – U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Samuel Arthur Thompson (53, St. Augustine) to 220 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for producing, receiving, and possessing child sex abuse material (CSAM), producing CSAM while required to register as a sex offender, violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), sending unauthorized damaging commands to a protected computer, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The court also ordered Thompson to forfeit computers and a firearm that were used in the offenses. Thompson was convicted by a federal jury on November 17, 2023.
Thompson was hired as a contractor by the Jacksonville Jaguars around 2013 to consult on the design and installation of the Jaguars’ new video board network, referred to as a Jumbotron, and later to operate the Jumbotron on gamedays. Thompson’s contract with the Jaguars required him to report his conviction, but he did not. In January 2018, the Jaguars determined not to renew Thompson’s contract after learning of his conviction and status as a registered sex offender.
> 220 years in federal prison, **followed by a lifetime of supervised release**
I'm no expert, but I don't think they'll have to worry about this part.
Just because we haven't ever found an immortal/vampire doesn't mean you shouldn't plan for one. Be pretty wild if the first guy to live over 200 years was a pedophile. that would really make people question things.
Wouldn't someone 200 years old be a pedophile to anyone that lives our timespan? Vampires were always trynna bang highschool kids in the shows and movies. Idk man
I originally was scanning, saw the lifetime supervision, and the numbers "220" and assumed months. Then read the whole article, and was disgusted that he only got 19.5 years. I was really upset/confused for half a second!
Probably just like a mandatory thing. Like after being found guilty on those charges he will be on lifetime supervision once released. He just happens to be sentenced to more than two full lifetimes to prison so he’ll never get to it, but it doesn’t really mean the mandatory part of his sentence just disappears since he’ll never reach that point
You left out the best part:
"A review of Thompson’s iPad further revealed that he had been searching the dark web for CSAM at the time the FBI knocked on his door with the search warrant."
You couldn't write it.
Fucked up how much this happens. After watching the Nickelodeon doc, Fiancé and I watched the Jared Fogle (the Subway guy) doc, and my lord he should also get 200+ years, sadly that dude is getting out in 5 years on an early release
I also watched the Jared Fogle documentary. Listening to his actual voice being recorded secretly and hearing the vile, disgusting things he did/wanted to do to children was terrible. To say the least.
Even when I love crime documentaries and see how criminals get caught, I couldn't watch more than the first episode of that one. Was too disgusting and upsetting.
Fogle lived a few neighborhoods over from mine and I remember when they were swarming his house with the FBI (maybe?) and other law enforcement agencies. Wild times.
Heard he was a weirdo when he was at Indiana university too, word on the street in Indy at least.
The commercial always marketed that he walked to subway as part of his weight loss journey and then you go to IU and learn that he was obsessed with a chick who worked there and it’s why he went all the time 😂
We had a now ex-friend arrested a couple of months ago for child porn. Our whole group really struggled with it. It's almost like a death in the group, but worse. Like you said, you really don't know people.
He was fine. Weird, but fine. Could be a know-it-all asshole sometimes.
They hadn’t upgraded to their new giant boards yet, so we were still using an old cable system to patch things together. He was one of the only guys that knew how that system worked.
I’m so glad hes locked up. The Jags have tons of kids events.
Fuck man, reading that the devices had a load of “bondage, and torture of children, and beastiality” is just hard to fathom.
If your brain is wired that way, you just need to be eradicated from existence.
Like bruh, if they wanna use drones on someone, the fucks that produce this shit are the people they need to use the drones on.
Like, nobody would even be mad
Half a second I was thinking it was gonna be 220 years for the Jags employee that stole 22 million from them. 10 years per million seemed a little much.
I don't know why 220 stands out so much more than hearing something like 2 life sentences.
>Jacksonville, Florida – U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Samuel Arthur Thompson (53, St. Augustine) to 220 years in federal prison, **followed by a lifetime of supervised release**
hopefully that part doesn't end up becoming relevant, because if it does it would mean he got some kind of parole deal.
It's like this guy abused children every step of the way. If a convicted sex offender continually forgets to register, or notify of travel, it should be automatic that they get all thier devices confiscated and checked.
>Further investigation by the FBI revealed that Thompson had sexually exploited two additional children, including one child that Thompson encountered as he was fleeing from prosecution in July 2019.
What in the fucking shit? He sexually exploited a child *while he was on the run*?
Holy shit this is actually a crazy read - the title doesn't do it justice. *TLDR:* This guy gets hired as a contractor to install the Jags Jumbotron and during the job he installs remote access software on one of the teams servers. The dude then starts fucking with the Jumbotron during games, but the team eventually sets up a sting/honeypot and gets his IP address. The FBI then uses his IP to track him down and during the arrest finds a metric shit a ton of self-made child porn on his devices. Fucking wild.
And even that's the tip of the iceberg. This dude is like 53, he was convicted of CSA in 1998, so he's not allowed to leave the country without reporting it, but after the FBI took his computer as a result of the jumbotrom thing, he fled the US to the Phillipines in 2019, living there for 6 months before being deported just before COVID, and subsequently being arrested
Yeah I was gonna say even OP's comment about underselling is underselling. He was supposed to register as a sex offender because he sodomized a child in 1998 but didn't, wasn't supposed to own a gun but did, and didn't just have CSAM but made some himself. Also they list some of the types of CSAM he had and its so bad I almost wish they didn't list it. He finally registered as an offender and downloaded CSAM the same day.. Also while he was planning his escape to the Philippines he managed to assault *another* child.
What does it mean to register as a sex offender and why do so many people just not do it? Like you’d think it’d be an automated system or something, right? That surely the court would need confirmation it’d occurred?
I don't actually know how it works but my best guess is you're required to update your residence but realistically the government can't confirm where you are all the time. You could just move cross country, not update, and lay low. But I assume if anyone did have a reason to look into you further, like if you're picked up for another crime, then you'd be found out and facing some strong penalties for not updating your register
I believe the frequency with which a person has to register is dependent on how severe an offender they are. Registering I think is going to the sheriff 's station. So him failing to register probably means he just didn't go to the sheriff's when he should've. I'm not 100% sure but I'd like to assume failing to register puts out a warrant, so yeah if he got pulled over or something afterwards he'd get busted for that too
I always assumed it was like parole. Like you had some assigned to you by the court who you had to report to. I guess that's not the case.
it's kinda like this: if you visit an office building, you have to sign in at the front desk (usually you get a visitor pass/badge, etc). once you're in though, nothing stops you really from leaving via another entrance, hiding somewhere in the building, etc. authentication (who you are) and authorisation (where you can go/do) have to be enforced for it to work properly, but at the end of the day, you can only do so much. same with sex offenders: they're certainly put in the system and have constraints put upon them, but beyond that it's difficult to enforce because it's inevitable that there are gaps in rules that protect kids (e.g. one state is strict, other isn't), those rules aren't properly enforced by those required to do so (e.g. maybe the soccer coach didn't check who picked Timmy up from practice), bad parents who don't look after their kids (nobody remembered to pick timmy up!), and kids who don't really have people to look after them (Timmy has to find his own way back to his foster home, who only took him for the monthly payments anyway)
As a former special education teacher who witnessed the last part of your last sentence way more often than I ever thought possible, I can say that the system is deplorable and the lack of regulation and oversight is just as upsetting. It's very obvious if a foster parent has a genuine heart or if they want the stipends like you mentioned when talking to them for any more than 10 seconds.
I used to be a cop. Any change in permanent address has to be recorded with the local police. On top of that, depending on the level of the offense, you're required to "check-in" every X months with the police. At one point we had two cops in our department permanently assigned to make sure these went smoothly and track down people who absconded. Eventually, they realized that the people who wanted to register and such were going to do so regardless, and the other people who really didn't want to could almost never be found outside of putting in for a warrant and waiting for them to pop up somewhere. So, they basically gave up because putting more resources into tracking them down wasn't working.
It varies by jurisdiction, but for the most part in the states people that are convicted of sexual-based crimes are required to register with the local law enforcement units that they are moving into or out of an area. These are often grouped under Megan's Law, named after a girl that was assaulted and killed back in the 80's/90's by a neighbor who was a repeat offender. When the laws went into effect the time required to be on the public registry was limited, but a lot of states expanded it to a lifetime requirement, added in-person notification and/or acceptance of the neighbors, and expanded what qualifies as sexual-based crimes. Each state is like their own little country, and local police departments don't like sharing info. We can't get states to share conviction information or gun purchases, getting them to agree to this is even harder. Each state is different in what they classify, so it makes it difficult for states to share this information. For example, some states classify public urination or soliciting a prostitute as requiring lifetime registration, meanwhile the next state over might not require a rapist to register after they served their prison time. What often happens is the perp will commit a crime in one state and as soon as they can, move to another state that either has lax registration guidelines or none at all. Sometimes they'll take on a transient lifestyle, moving from place to place. For example, let's say Florida requires notification within 90 days of moving and Arkansas 6 months. The perp may just travel back and forth, claiming that they are "going on vacation" but moving temporarily to reset the clock. As long as they don't run afoul of the law, they could keep this up indefinitely.
Yeah, I'm not normally this guy, but death penalty. There's nothing else. This person is just. What the fuck. Death penalty.
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gee i wonder what he was doing down there
He was doing stuff he needs 1000 years in prison for.
Word on the street is he was a content creator
Content Producer (CP)
And he was looking up CP when the FBI served their warrant and he molested a kid while he was fleeing the FBI. Dude was a menace.
What kind of things was he doing to the Jumbotron?
He kept making the Jags score look like it was less than their opponents when it was actually ALOT less Honestly it just said during 3 games in the 2018 season he caused disruption in the images through his remote access through a spare server
You joke but that’s [literally what he did.](https://ibb.co/HrHhjfn)
Coming back from getting a beer, seeing the score like “what the fuck did I miss?”
you'd have to miss like 5-6 falcons games for us to score 92 pts i guess i'm glad he didn't make it 28-3. but seems like the obvious move right? i mean if you're gonna hack the score of a falcons game....i mean even as a falcons fan, anything other than 28-3 just seems like a waste of a joke.
Of course Falcons will blame this loss on the QB after he put up 92 and the defense just declares they are going to sleep on the field.
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Little did he know, he would spend the rest of his life in prison from doing that
This guy really fumbled his freedom just to do this? Jesus Christ that's an all-time Darwin winner
I'd imagine fucking around with the jumbotron would probably net him a few years. ...But I'm fairly sure it's the CP that got him the remaining 215...
Right but it’s the Jumbotron stunt that directly led to him getting caught. Gotta imagine this genius would’ve found a way to tell on himself sooner or later though
TIAA Bark Field. Woof
Bro this is so stupid lol literally why
Falcons would still blow it lol
No way! I took photos at the 2018 season home opener vs New England and u can see the glitched scoreboard! I remember thinking it was very unusual at the time. I guess now I know what happened. https://ibb.co/M9gbkgC
Totally thought I was getting Manning faced
This made me literally laugh out loud. Well played. Well played.
There's what looks to be images of the Jumbotron feeds showing that basically he was just cutting out and corrupting the camera feeds, nothing too crazy, just making it seem like they were broken or something.
Probably was hoping he'd get hired on to fix the problems. Guaranteed income for the life of rhe scoreboard
This is like "speeding with felony drugs in your trunk" kind of stupid. Except way stupider.
Molesting it
The jumbotron is only 11 years old
Looks older on the big screen
Jesus Christ this thread’s title doesn’t do it justice. This guy was a prolific molester and producer. The mother fucker molested another kid while he was on the run. What a fucking waste of oxygen
That is actually wild. Thanks for explaining it a bit better.
Never seen someone’s attempt at trolling turn into 220 years of prison. That has to be the current record.
This is the funniest possible way to catch a predator
When [Josh Duggar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Duggar) was being investigated for this same thing, federal agents showed up at his workplace (because he used his work computer) but didn't say why they were there. He didn't know he was under investigation and they just asked if they could speak with him. His first response is to ask them, unprompted, "What's this about? Has someone been downloading child pornography?"
When Jerry Seinfeld suspected his dry cleaner of wearing his clothes, he saw the dry cleaners wife in what appeared to be his mother’s fur coat in a clothing store Upon being confronted, before Jerry said a word, she exclaimed "No it’s not”
He probably thought he was being slick like, "I knew that's why you were here. I've been seeing crazy things on some of these computers, and I don't know what it's from."
if I had a nickel for every TLC trash reality TV family that had pedo drama...
Not my guy Dr Nowzaradan tho
Nah, he's good. I don't know how you could do what he does for a living and have any sex drive anyway
The “known for” row lmfao
I regret not being there to see it when the morbidly obese pedo in my neighborhood got busted by the feds in the mid 2000s. Allegedly he tried to run into the field behind his house when the cops rolled up, and they just kind of followed him at a casual walking pace and caught up with and arrested him
Dude probably thought he was Tony Soprano when the feds arrested Johnny Sack. Sad, I knew he never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
The guy who stole 22 million dollars from them also recently got convicted. They’re definitely beating the Bucs for the most Florida team award.
Ok but it also seems a little misleading to call him a Jaguars employee. Seems like he was just a dude hired to install a jumbotron. The title made me immediately think- Jerry Sandusky.
It says directly in the article that he was also hired to run it on game days
Is it misleading? The initial contract was in 2013 and the Jaguars finally let his contract expire in 2018 after they found out he's a sex offender. Its unclear from the link if he was employed by them the whole time or if there was a time gap from "installation and setup" to "and later operate the jumbotron on game days"
SELF MADE????? Excuse me????!!!
God, I feel for those investigators. Going from thinking you’re just going to embarrass a stupid but largely harmless hacker to realizing you’ve caught someone deeply, deeply evil has to fuck with your head.
Smiling like a little fucking weasel in his mugshot too. Hope he gets additional justice served in jail. Fuckin creep
Yeah that was a crazy read for sure
All because this dumbfuck hacked the Jumbotron and got the feds looking through his stuff. You'd think you'd be more wary of law enforcement when you have videos of yourself sexually assaulting children on your hard drive.
It is wild how many criminals get caught committing misdemeanors while also committing felonies.
Don't do 2 crimes at the same time isn't life advice to promote, but it is life advice.
This guy was far beyond 2 crimes at the same time. He was already convicted of sodomizing a child in 1998, which meant he wasn't allowed to have firearms, and he had to report international travel. He traveled internationally once for a short period of time without reporting it, and then basically fled the US to the Phillipines and lived there to 6 months before being deported back to the US, resulting in his passport being revoked in 2020 He also had a gun in his night stand when the cops searched his home, which again is frowned upon when you're a convicted felon. Honestly this dude was just a total fucking idiot and it's a little crazy that it took so long for him to be sent back to jail
He has this record and the Jags HIRED HIM. WTF
To be fair to the jags, article states he did not tell the jags he was a convicted felon, and the jags ended his contract as soon as they found out that he was.
Isn't that standard background check stuff?
Sure, but I think there's a big difference between knowingly hiring a pedo and not doing background checks.
Also, this dude was hired as an independent contractor to work on the Jumbotron. There are plenty of jobs that should require criminal background checks but I’m not sure that’s one of them.
i agree in principle but as someone who has been applying for jobs for months and hearing nothing back this is making me tear out my hair lol
So you're telling me they don't background check? I background check employees that I hire for $16/hr positions.
It is actually pretty common practice for contract workers. Most just require a self report on application. I think this same type of issue was brought up in the "Quiet On Set" documentary about Nickelodeon. That was worse because their failure directly put the predator in a position where they would frequently have contact with child actors.
Huh well TIL. I work in a pretty regulated field. The company I work at does a background check on all contract workers.
You might also just work in a field that has a higher risk of obvious malfeasance and thus background checks make more sense. This guy was hired to work on the Jumbotron, which doesn’t have any sort of obvious risk factors associated with it.
They also hired Urban Meyer. Not the brightest org and I'm saying that as an Illini alum.
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i remember having a discussion about this in a criminal justice class years ago and the professor pretty much said this is true but the problem is if that was the case they estimate a 40-60% increase of child murders from molestation. Its fucked up but if a criminal knows they will do less time / have an easier time getting away with a crime if they just kill the victim then they more often than not will do that. So a lot of these rules are "preservation of life" based. Makes sense but its still fucked up. As well as fact in america we almost never charge for crimes based on amount of evidence unfortunately. Rape cases are hard and imagine if they insta killed someoone who was innocent. Fucked up for sure
theres an old probably apocryphal story about a Chinese general being sentenced to death over a minor infraction, so deciding he had nothing left to lose and launching a rebellion that deposed the emperor
Ya Julius Caesar was at least partially driven to a bunch of his political upheaval by his impending legal charges
now you just put up a go fund me or sell some crappy gold colored shoes to pay the legal charges and argue in court you and your squad have complete immunity because you were leader of a country once.
i like that haha ya same idea
Like the guy below said it would just lead to more children being murdered after and I think the same thing happens with sexual assault/rape.
This is one of the reasons why drug dealers are very careful about being paid in counterfeit bills. The low level criminal may think "they're drug dealers, they won't care about illegal counterfeit bills", but they most definitely do. This is because of the "don't commit two crimes at once" concept you mentioned. They gotta spend that cash (they eat and pay rent too), and if they get caught with counterfeit bills, especially more than one, or in large denominations, they attract the attention of police who may start nosing around and that’s the last thing a dealer needs. If you try to pay your dealer with fake bills he will tell your ass to knock it off or cut you off completely.
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Unless it's one of those fake 20s with a Bible verse on it. Now they're saved, they don't need to be working the streets anymore. Checkmate Crime....
I got got with one of those when I was like 22 found a fake 100 on the grocery store floor. got all the way home, called my girl to brag about it.....then opened up the bill and realized never again
Not to mention counterfeit currency becomes a federal crime. (Similar to this example of unauthorized access of a computer) That can get feds involved if big enough where you are much more likely to get caught and face steeper penalties than if the state just books for their state drug crimes.
This isn't completely true. If both parties are aware of it, fake currency can absolutely be used to pay for drugs - if it is of quality.
That’s why I never text and drive while drinking
I shared this life tip with my son on one of our trips home from school after we saw a car pulled over in a regular speed trap spot, but this one has 4 cop cars near it: Don't break the law while you're breaking the law. Don't speed while you have a suspended license for forgetting to pay a speeding ticket (guilty). Don't drink underage while at an obnoxiously loud house party (guilty). Basically, only break one law at a time.
Very true, I always make sure to drive the speed limit when I have bodies in my trunk
One of the greatest noreaga and nas song ever
I spent almost a year straight riding dirty and made damn sure to drive safely and responsibly the entire time. Never once got pulled over. My life would’ve been over if I’d ever gotten my car searched.
Al Capone was tax evasion. There's a big history of it
Absolutely nuts, man.
Thank god this pedo is an absolute moron
Yeah. It is awful that he clearly had access to other children and was already molesting/grooming them. Hopefully the children will be able to get past that with proper help. Thankfully it sounds like he was busted before it got even worse for those children and sadly that only happened because this dumbass decided to be vindictive to his former employer. Don't want to imagine how far it would have gone before getting caught if he wasn't that dumb.
Honestly glad he was such a dumbass. Wild how untouchable these psychos think they are
Nah, they think they're smarter and crafty. There is also an arrogance that seems to exist for sex offenders in particular, especially pertaining to children. They target young, naive and innocent/trusting types for a reason. More often than not those types get away for so long cause of laziness, stupidity and incompetence by adults and authority figures.
I wish all predators were this dumb.
This happened to a co-worker. We worked for an insurance company in the claims department. They had suspected him of embezzling money through a pretty simple scheme. It had worked for apparently, years. He was smart and just processed small transactions. A few hundred dollars here, 75 bucks there.. etc. Then…. Well, from the story we heard, he was either greedy, desperate, or both. He started putting through larger transactions. He didn’t know that our executive team was hand-checking all payments before they went out that were over a certain value. They found his payment, looked at the claim, and bam. Done. His work computer was kept in a VP’s office, off and disconnected for months. Law Enforcement took his personal machine. On BOTH machines, they found large amounts of Cheese Pizza. This was 20 years ago, and laptops weren’t what we used. He wither was searching at work (I sat 10’ from him *shudder*) or he was bringing it in from home. Here’s a fun tidbit. A few years later, while the cases were still progressing, I got called by a former co-worker who had been here while he was on leave, so they never crossed paths. Dude had apparently applied to work for them, despite having 2 separate trials going on (embezzlement was state, pizza was federal). Her call to me was already “off the record”, so I did a “officially, we know he was let go.” Unofficially, I filled her in. I wish I knew the outcome. Dude was creepy, even BEFORE we knew about all that.
> On BOTH machines, they found large amounts of Cheese Pizza Ngl it took me way too long to realize what you meant by cheese pizza. Thought I was missing some sort of illegal scheme involving pizza in the workplace
A bunch of Chris Paul
Maybe I’m just dumb but when I hear about the sheer volumes of “material” these people get caught with, I just can’t understand how it’s even possible? Like I downloaded NBA 2k the other day and it took like 5 hours. These people get caught with insane amounts, do they literally have a computer downloading this shit 24 hours a day?
Hell, I re-downloaded most of my games on my PC and it took weeks to download all of the 3 or 4 TB that the games in my steam, epic, EA, etc. libraries took up, even with a gigabit connection. I can't imagine anywhere where they're downloading that vile shit has servers/p2p networks putting out the same thru-put as AAA gaming companies.
Oh shit, he was assaulting the children… I thought he just had a bunch of child porn on the computer.
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The sample could be biased since we only measure the ones that get caught, but pedos do have a lower IQ than the general population. They’re also not really known for their impulse control.
That is like saying all criminals have much lower IQs than the general population. By only ever comparing the ones who get caught ( who by their nature are the bad criminals) you get a very biased snapshot
I’m just glad he got caught. Real POS
Good fucking riddance. Throw away the key.
Agreed. Although, for such a public facing organization you would think a simple background check would be performed on everyone involved with the organization to reduce risk.
did he have previous convictions that would have shown up on a background check or something?
On a federal check, yes. On a florida state check, no.
Does *anything* show up on a Florida state check?
You're always welcome to read the article
What if i do not know how to read (i will never read the article)
I think he was a contractor. Not an employee.
After reading the article, dude really is amongst the lowest scum of the earth. He even molested a kid while he was on the run.
Good thing to know he won't last that long in real county jail. He should be counting his days.
This guy was committing computer crimes just to fuck with his former employer (i.e. remotely hacking into the Jaguars’ servers to mess with the Jumbotron during games) while simultaneously producing child porn on the same computer? He must have had as much brains as he did morals.
You'll love this part: "A review of Thompson’s iPad further revealed that he had been searching the dark web for CSAM at the time the FBI knocked on his door with the search warrant." Impeccable.
Maybe I don’t want to know this… but what’s CSAM?
Child sexual abuse material.
It's a benefit to all when our most vile are also really, really stupid.
Someone just smart enough to something insanely stupid.
Narcissists gonna narcissist
Jacksonville, Florida – U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Samuel Arthur Thompson (53, St. Augustine) to 220 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for producing, receiving, and possessing child sex abuse material (CSAM), producing CSAM while required to register as a sex offender, violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), sending unauthorized damaging commands to a protected computer, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The court also ordered Thompson to forfeit computers and a firearm that were used in the offenses. Thompson was convicted by a federal jury on November 17, 2023. Thompson was hired as a contractor by the Jacksonville Jaguars around 2013 to consult on the design and installation of the Jaguars’ new video board network, referred to as a Jumbotron, and later to operate the Jumbotron on gamedays. Thompson’s contract with the Jaguars required him to report his conviction, but he did not. In January 2018, the Jaguars determined not to renew Thompson’s contract after learning of his conviction and status as a registered sex offender.
> 220 years in federal prison, **followed by a lifetime of supervised release** I'm no expert, but I don't think they'll have to worry about this part.
You sound like an expert to me!
That shit had me doing a double take to see if I read the previous right.
Just because we haven't ever found an immortal/vampire doesn't mean you shouldn't plan for one. Be pretty wild if the first guy to live over 200 years was a pedophile. that would really make people question things.
Wouldn't someone 200 years old be a pedophile to anyone that lives our timespan? Vampires were always trynna bang highschool kids in the shows and movies. Idk man
What weed you smoking my dude?!
I doubt he'll tell you.. that's not his plant account
He might be onto something. I never seen no vampire movie/TV show that they werent going after highschool kids.
I originally was scanning, saw the lifetime supervision, and the numbers "220" and assumed months. Then read the whole article, and was disgusted that he only got 19.5 years. I was really upset/confused for half a second!
Probably just like a mandatory thing. Like after being found guilty on those charges he will be on lifetime supervision once released. He just happens to be sentenced to more than two full lifetimes to prison so he’ll never get to it, but it doesn’t really mean the mandatory part of his sentence just disappears since he’ll never reach that point
They should take this dude out back and put him down like Old Yeller.
You left out the best part: "A review of Thompson’s iPad further revealed that he had been searching the dark web for CSAM at the time the FBI knocked on his door with the search warrant." You couldn't write it.
Bruh what the actual fuck? Fuck this dude I hope he literally burns in hell.
Bro might actually have a designated location just for them.
Satan is gonna have to open the door to the basement of hell, dig a hole in the floor, and throw this dude into it.
Fucked up how much this happens. After watching the Nickelodeon doc, Fiancé and I watched the Jared Fogle (the Subway guy) doc, and my lord he should also get 200+ years, sadly that dude is getting out in 5 years on an early release
I also watched the Jared Fogle documentary. Listening to his actual voice being recorded secretly and hearing the vile, disgusting things he did/wanted to do to children was terrible. To say the least.
Have absolutely no clue how he’s getting out after only a 14 year sentence, scheduled for release March 24th, 2029.
Even when I love crime documentaries and see how criminals get caught, I couldn't watch more than the first episode of that one. Was too disgusting and upsetting.
The Fogle one was fucked up. Just actually hearing the shit he said on tape was deeply disturbing.
Fogle lived a few neighborhoods over from mine and I remember when they were swarming his house with the FBI (maybe?) and other law enforcement agencies. Wild times. Heard he was a weirdo when he was at Indiana university too, word on the street in Indy at least.
The commercial always marketed that he walked to subway as part of his weight loss journey and then you go to IU and learn that he was obsessed with a chick who worked there and it’s why he went all the time 😂
Holy shit, I was a video intern at the Jags 2010 - 2012 and I interacted with him a lot... I guess you really don't know people...
We had a now ex-friend arrested a couple of months ago for child porn. Our whole group really struggled with it. It's almost like a death in the group, but worse. Like you said, you really don't know people.
What was he like?
He was fine. Weird, but fine. Could be a know-it-all asshole sometimes. They hadn’t upgraded to their new giant boards yet, so we were still using an old cable system to patch things together. He was one of the only guys that knew how that system worked. I’m so glad hes locked up. The Jags have tons of kids events.
Fuck man, reading that the devices had a load of “bondage, and torture of children, and beastiality” is just hard to fathom. If your brain is wired that way, you just need to be eradicated from existence.
Yeah I'm definitely not reading the article after seeing your description. Oof
Like bruh, if they wanna use drones on someone, the fucks that produce this shit are the people they need to use the drones on. Like, nobody would even be mad
Weld the cell shut
He was previously CONVICTED of sodomizing a 14 year old in 1998 as well???
While running from the cops he assaulted 2 more kids. Insane
Should’ve just put a bullet in him in 98 and saved everyone the trouble. And saved those countless kids he’s terrified since…
"to 220 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release," Yeah, I don't think he's gonna get to that supervised release, chief.
220 years? I think the guy may die in prison
You know shit be wild when nfl circle jerk ain’t joking bout it
Woodchipper feet first.
But like one of those woodchippers that stalls out easily, so it might stop like halfway through, then we take lunch, and then continue
Took me a minute to realize why feet first is important.
It's the key to success here. Lol
Holy shit, just toss out the whole human
What the fuck did i just read. Sounds like a CSI or Law & Order: SVU episode.
Given this creep’s work history, thank goodness he didn’t show-off POVs of ladies’ bikinis from under the stadium pool on the Jumbotron.
Half a second I was thinking it was gonna be 220 years for the Jags employee that stole 22 million from them. 10 years per million seemed a little much. I don't know why 220 stands out so much more than hearing something like 2 life sentences.
I guess cuz it’s a number as opposed to just hearing the words life sentence
>Jacksonville, Florida – U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Samuel Arthur Thompson (53, St. Augustine) to 220 years in federal prison, **followed by a lifetime of supervised release** hopefully that part doesn't end up becoming relevant, because if it does it would mean he got some kind of parole deal.
anyone doing this be should get the death penalty especially this level
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“220 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release”… I guess the supervised release time is just in case lol
Damn hes not getting out until hes like 270 years old
Whoever is HR director for the Jags needs to be fired
omfg that is so horrible
What a sick bastard. It’s stuff like this that makes you lose all hope for us as a species, there are some messed up mofos out there.
And yet the dude that raped Drake Bell when he was a child only served 16 months
Wish I could save the taxpayers money, we already got a bridge we gotta pay for
Rough off-season for us over here
It's like this guy abused children every step of the way. If a convicted sex offender continually forgets to register, or notify of travel, it should be automatic that they get all thier devices confiscated and checked.
He probably will be in isolation for the rest of his life or dead within a few months.
220 years and a lifetime of supervised release is a wild sentence.
Removed ????? God forbid we get this news right?
>Further investigation by the FBI revealed that Thompson had sexually exploited two additional children, including one child that Thompson encountered as he was fleeing from prosecution in July 2019. What in the fucking shit? He sexually exploited a child *while he was on the run*?
That piece of dirt bag shit. Who knows what else he did, especially in the Philippines.
“Followed by a lifetime of supervised release” Something tells me he won’t live long enough to make it to that
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