A man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after he was arrested in July 2017 for attempting to eat memory cards filled with child pornography.
David Orozco, a 31-year-old Georgia resident formerly from Mexico, was stopped by officers from the Harnett County Sheriff's Office after they spotted his blue Lexus drifting in the center lane near Dunn, North Carolina.
The officers noticed that Orozco was nervous as he was reportedly shaking and sweating inside his car, despite the fact that it was air-conditioned.
Tool marks were found on the dashboard by officers who then conducted a thorough search of the Lexus and discovered $111,252 in grocery bags that was in a hidden compartment.
David Orozco, 31, (above) was stopped by police near Dunn, North Carolina in a blue Lexus in 2017 and was found in possession of child pornography as well as $111,252 that was hidden in the dashboard
The vehicle was also registered under a different owner who had an expired license.
Orozco was searched in which a $100 bill fell out of his pocket along with five memory cards that contained the child pornography.
He then quickly took two cards from the ground and put them in his mouth in an attempt to destroy the evidence.
Police managed to get the three other cards and grabbed half of another from Orozco's mouth. The fifth was swallowed.
Hundreds of thousands of videos and pictures were found in the obtained memory cards as well as Orozco's cellphone with most of them containing content from children 12 and under.
Evidence from the incident was nearly abolished two years ago after a federal district attorney claimed that Orozco had no ties to the incident as the Lexus was not his, despite the fact that he matched the identity of the driver in reports.
Orozco, who speaks poor English, reportedly consented to the search and the money allegedly belonged to the owner of the Lexus.
Orozco stored hundreds of thousands of child pornography using devices such as memory cards and even tried to eat five of them during a search by police
Orozco was convicted in March on a count of possession of child pornography
On August 23, Orozco was sentenced to 12 years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge James C. Dever, according to The News & Observer.
Dever told Orozco: 'These are real children. They’re not some computer image, not some fiction. They’re somebody’s baby, somebody’s toddler.'
Other aspects surrounding the case, such as the large sum of money found, still have not been solved, according to Dever.
He has been ordered to attend mental health evaluations and sexual offender treatment programs as well as paying $5,000 to one of his victims.
Orozco may also be transferred to a facility in Texas as he has connections there, according to his attorney.
He will be deported back to Mexico after the end of his sentence.
U.S. District Court Judge James C. Dever sentenced Orozco to 12 years in prison
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