FORMER JPL GUARD FACING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES.Byline: Usha Sutliff Staff Writer LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE - A former security guard at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. is scheduled to be arraigned Monday on federal charges that he downloaded child pornography on a NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. computer at the lab. David Wayne Phifer, 40, of Rancho Cucamonga was indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. in April on charges that he downloaded two images of child pornography on Feb. 25, 1999, and accessed a government computer without authorization. He faces 15 years in prison if convicted. Phifer was on patrol for Florida-based Wackenhut Services Inc., which provides security for JPL, when he used a computer in a secure area to retrieve the information, officials said. The security guard was subsequently fired. JPL spokesman Frank O'Donnell said the lab, which is managed by the California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), , has strict rules against the viewing of ``inappropriate material'' on computers there. Phifer was identified as a suspect following an investigation by JPL Security and Protective Services and the NASA Inspector General's Office of Criminal Investigations and Computer Crimes Division. |
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