former sevier county judge sentenced for child pornography

The sentence was the result of Reagan’s guilty plea to an Information charging him with possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2252A(a)(5)(B).

Judge Phillips also imposed a 10 year term of supervised release to commence after Reagan’s release from prison.

Reagan was released on a $200,000 bond pending designation of an institution by the Bureau of Prisons. One of the conditions of that release is that he is to be placed on electronic monitoring.

The facts leading to the conviction of Reagan are that on March 8, 2006, Detective Tom Evans of the Knoxville Police Department's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Michelle Patterson interviewed the defendant at his office in Sevierville. During that interview, the defendant admitted that he had used his computer to obtain images of child pornography from the internet.

Additionally, he stated that a search of his computer would uncover child pornographic images.

The defendant gave consent to the search of his computer. A forensic examination was performed on the computer. As a result of this forensic examination it was determined that the defendant possessed 104 images of child pornography.

This analysis also determined the following: that some of the child pornography images downloaded by the defendant contain prepubescent children, that the defendant obtained possession of these images through use of his computer, and that the images had been transported in interstate commerce.

These images were sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) for identification of possible known child victims. The NCMEC was able to identify several of these images as images of known child victims.

Reagan is currently an attorney in Sevierville. He has served as a Sevier County Judicial Commissioner, Sevier County Trial Justice Judge and Juvenile Court Judge.

This conviction is the result of the United States Department of Justice’s Project Safe Childhood initiative which investigates and prosecutes individuals who exploit children over the internet.