Huntersville Man Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Transporting Child Sexual Abuse Material

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A Huntersville man was sentenced seven years in prison yesterday for transporting child sexual abuse material (CSAM), announced Russ Ferguson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Jonathan Robert Davlin, 49, was also ordered to serve 10 years of supervised release and to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison.

According to court records, in 2022, law enforcement received information that an individual later identified as Davlin was uploading CSAM on a cloud-based server. During the investigation, law enforcement seized cell phones and other electronics that belonged to Davlin. A forensic analysis of those items revealed that Davlin possessed 797 videos and 861 images depicting the sexual abuse of children, including significant quantities of videos depicting bestiality involving minors and infant/toddlers.

Davlin pleaded guilty to transportation of child pornography on January 6, 2026. He is in federal custody and will be transferred to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons upon designation of a federal facility.

In making today's announcement, U.S. Attorney Ferguson credited the FBI and the Huntersville Police Department for the investigation of the case.

Assistant United States Attorney Daniel Cervantes with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Charlotte prosecuted the case.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse, launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc.

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