Feds charge man with distributing child sex abuse material from girlfriend’s San Pablo home

OAKLAND — Federal prosecutors have charged a 27-year-old man with distributing child sex abuse material from the San Pablo residence where he lived with his girlfriend and her parents, according to court records.

Last Summer, 27-year-old Chadwick Gribble got a surprise when federal authorities showed up to his girlfriend’s family’s home on Rose Arbor Avenue to seize his electronic devices in a child pornography investigation. Now Gribble is behind bars, facing a child pornography distributing charge that carries between five and 20 years in federal prison, court records show.

Gribble is next due in court on Thursday for a detention hearing, where a judge could sign off on his release from jail, records show.

The criminal complaint says that police started investigating Gribble based on a tip from the chat application Kik. Authorities say they found evidence Gribble was sending child sexual abuse material to another user.

On his phone, they found 45 unique files, including two depicting an infant being subjected to sexual “violence,” Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Andrew Mundy wrote in court filings. Mundy confired Gribble’s ownership of the phone by also finding “several pornographic and non-pornographic ‘selfie’ style images of a male subject I recognized as Gribble,” he wrote.

The case was unsealed Monday at Gribble’s first court appearance. He has not yet entered a plea.

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