A 53-year-old man, Samuel Arthur Thompson, of St. Augustine, has been sentenced to 220 years in federal prison for a series of crimes, including producing child sexual abuse material and hacking the jumbotron at the Jacksonville Jaguars stadium. The sentencing took place in Jacksonville after Thompson was convicted in November on multiple charges.
Thompson's criminal activities included producing, receiving, and possessing sexual images of children, violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, sending unauthorized damaging commands to a protected computer, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. His arrest in early 2020 followed his deportation from the Philippines back to the U.S., where he had fled after the FBI executed a search warrant at his home and seized several computers.
