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Bonners Ferry Man Sentenced to Five Years for Possession of
Sexually Explicit Images of Minors

Boundary County Sheriffs Office was also involved with this investigation.

COEUR D’ALENE – Thurlo Eugene Clark, 72, of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, was sentenced
today in federal court in Coeur d’Alene to 60 months in prison for possession of sexually explicit
images of minors, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Senior U.S. District Court
Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered a ten-year term of supervised release following Clark’s
release from prison.
According to the plea agreement, Clark admitted that on May 6, 2016, law enforcement
officers contacted him because officers received information that Clark tried to send child
pornography via the internet. Clark admitted to law enforcement that he knowingly possessed
child pornography which he had received by email. With Clark’s consent, law enforcement
officers recovered various computer equipment that contained child pornography. At the time
law enforcement contacted Clark, he possessed some 21,000 images of child pornography.
The case was investigated by the FBI and the Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children
Task Force.