New York Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Child Exploitation Offenses

David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that NICOLAS BROWN, also known as "Breezy," 30, of New York, New York, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 180 months of imprisonment and 10 years of supervised release for child exploitation offenses.

According to court documents and statements made in court, on multiple occasions in March 2024, Brown arranged Uber trips to pick up one to three teenage girls, two of whom were under the age of 18, from a state-run group home in Connecticut and deliver them to him at various Connecticut hotels and shopping malls where he engaged in sexual conduct with one of the minor victims. On one occasion, an Uber trip that Brown arranged took the two minors to meet him at the Bridgeport train station. Brown and the two minors traveled to Manhattan, and then to a hotel in South Hackensack, New Jersey, where they stayed for several days.

On March 20, 2024, Brown was located at a hotel in Danbury and arrested on state charges. An iPhone seized from Brown at the time of his arrest revealed videos depicting child sex abuse, including videos that that he took engaging in sexual conduct with a minor victim.

Brown has been detained since his state arrest. On December 20, 2024, he pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of production of child pornography and one count of possessing and accessing with intent to view child pornography.

This matter was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the West Hartford Police Department, and the Danbury Police Department, with the assistance of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Lembo.

U.S. Attorney Sullivan thanked the State's Attorney's Office for the Judicial District of Danbury for its cooperation in investigating and prosecuting this matter.

This prosecution is part of the U.S. Department of Justice's Project Safe Childhood Initiative, which is aimed at protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc.

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