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other underage boys. On August 18, 2010, DeHart signed consent forms (such as the permission for any FBI agent and "any
Canadian law enforcement", to record his phone calls with his old military colleagues) and authorized agents to assume his online identity, giving the FBI his aliases, and passwords to his e-mail accounts. Among the accounts was a
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sentenced DeHart to 72 months for the porn charges and an additional 18 months for fleeing the country. According to DeHart, he was originally scheduled to be released
September 11, 2018, taking into account the 14 months he had spent under house arrest in Canada; this part of his plea deal was not
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server named 'The Shell', on a computer in his bedroom. In
September 2009, while monitoring the server, DeHart claims to have found an unencrypted folder containing hundreds of documents, including one detailing what looked like an
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November 13, 2015, in Tennessee, DeHart pleaded guilty to "two charges of receiving child pornography and a charge of failing to appear as ordered in court". On February 22, 2016, U.S. District Court Judge
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