Donald Sachtleben, Ex-FBI Agent, Arrested On Child Pornography Charges

Donald Sachtleben, 54 -- an ex-FBI agent -- is accused of possessing and distributing child pornography.

Donald Sachtleben was an FBI agent for 25 years, with a record that includes such high-profile investigations as the Oklahoma City bombing, United Flight 93 and the Unabomber.

Now his record includes child pornography charges.

Federal investigators in Indiana arrested 54-year-old Sachtleben this week after they allegedly found 30 images and video files of child pornography on his computer, along with evidence that he distributed the material, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Fox 59 reported that Sachtleben traded the explicit photos and videos using the e-mail address "[e-mail]."

In one e-mail, Sachtleben allegedly sent someone nine photos containing the material and wrote, "I have even better ones if you'd like."

He faces 30 years in prison if convicted. His attorney, Kathleen Sweeney, told the Associated Press that he pleaded not guilty on Monday.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Sachtleben was an FBI explosives and counter-terrorism expert for 25 years, briefly taught at Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Sciences and examined "more than 150 improvised explosive devices" in the field and in labs. He retired from the FBI in 2008.

His next hearing is scheduled for Thursday.

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Comments

[RebelPro]

07:24 PM on 06/20/2012

seriously? you think a guy like this would be dumb enough to have an email address like that? i call setup. he was getting close to making a break and someone set him up. "I have even better ones if you'd like." SERIOUSLY!? Who says that? 13 year olds on chatroulette and AIM. This guy has seen his fair share of highly sensitive information and (presumably) has in-depth knowledge of how to keep such information private. If he was investigating the online CP rings, it's very plausible that he has saved URLs, images, and server information for prosecution purposes. An email address as ridiculous as "pedodave69@yahoo" does not sound like a person who would be smart enough for the FBI. I can't believe people actually believe this. #my_two_cents

[pattykirsche]

07:44 PM on 06/14/2012

I've never met a man who wouldn't be interested in a woman because she's under the legal age of consent. It's sad but true. It's in our culture that men have sexual desire for the youngest woman they can have. And it's cool when they show off for their friends. As long as we have this "woman is good until 30" culture, pedophilia will keep on being reality.

[godschld7777]

09:41 AM on 05/22/2012

The way this seems to me is that this guy along with another agent knows of a planned ter... attack and our gov..... is trying to stop the truth.

[Ringwind]

08:08 PM on 05/21/2012

Google "the selective use of polygraphs"

[Robert Lockwood]

07:05 AM on 05/21/2012

You mean this story?

http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/fbi-agent-fleeing-massive-manhunt-warns-theyre-all-insane/15232

[Frank Helms]

02:40 PM on 05/20/2012

I don't know about you guys I really wonder about this. This was reported last week-http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120513/D9UNMGB81.html.
So, there was a manhunt for this guy involving 152 LEOs with dogs, all for 30 possible images of child porn? Really? You have to remember, these guys protect their own. What did this guy REALLY do or know???????

[C Karen Stopford]

08:03 AM on 05/21/2012

Your link couldn't be followed. Any way you can check it and repost?

[RebelPro]

07:26 PM on 06/20/2012

The cover-up deepens. Check google cache. Everything gets cached. If it's really gone, then +1 to Frank.

[Merchant Madness]

08:15 AM on 05/19/2012

Steven Ivens link.
http://www.eutimes.net/2012/05/fbi-agent-fleeing-massive-manhunt-warns-theyre-all-insane/

[boboto]

04:29 PM on 05/18/2012

What is the real story here? Is this related in any way to the missing FBI agent Stephen Ivens?

[mortonrchrd]

05:12 PM on 05/18/2012

http://www.eutimes.net/2012/05/fbi-agent-fleeing-massive-manhunt-warns-theyre-all-insane/

I hope I haven't mangled that link, bobto....If I did another poster put it up on the Stephen Ivens story.

[Quinny]

01:48 AM on 05/17/2012

There is more than meets the eye here. It is beginning to look
like this guy was set up because he knew that the "official"
story of some of the cases he was investigating was bull****.
Like the Oklahoma City bombing. But you will not find this
information on HuffPo. You will have to look elsewhere...

Selah

[Martin Timothy]

10:17 PM on 05/16/2012

Google lists millions of P2P sites that have the entire 15 GB Child Porn file free, that remain above the law, while young men web shopping for a bride are jailed and tagged as sex offenders, and this dude goes under for thirty images .. gimme a break :(

Historically young women present themselves at the marriage market, when at their most desirable age of between 11 & 14 yrs, and who says the pictures of nude girls are porn anyway?

The Russian girls at the nudie sites are the sweetest chicks on the web, pornography is when these same sweet chicks are being sexually assaulted, or abused .. in many countries girls are routinely wed in their early teens, in those places women become grandmothers in their thirties.

Jesus mother is said to have been married at fifteen, even as she was with child, so what is wrong with a younger girl putting her photographic portfolio on the net, if she wants to, the problem is sites that have pictures and video of rape, torture and murder, some of which have been up and running for years, that are not prosecuted!

So where the hell is the FBI, and when are the studios that produce this kind of material, gonna be raided and the webmasters prosecuted .. forty one prosecutions were levied against persons, including a school teacher who committed suicide, who clicked onto an entrapment site, that was up for twelve hours that had three million hits!

[nevaehs mama]

06:21 PM on 05/17/2012

maybe in countries like russia its legal for an 11 or 14 year old to get married (even though they are still obviously children and havent even fully gone through puberty) but in america its not. porn is not someone being abused or raped or assaulted. it is anything that is meant for the sexual pleasure of others. porn isnt defined by a violent nature. im not too sure what your post has to do with anything, either. this is just for the record...

[purplewg]

02:09 PM on 05/16/2012

I vote, hang him by his weeeeeeeeeeeeeener till dead.

[justbcom]

01:02 PM on 05/16/2012

Good God, why don't these supposedly intelligent and responsible people ever stop and think, "Hey what's wrong with this picture?," when it comes to themselves and their personal lives. No shame. No humanity it would seem, most of the time. But great actors apparently. Fooling so many for so long.

[RebelPro]

07:29 PM on 06/20/2012

good question. maybe you should re-read your post and ask yourself that same question. There are more things going on here than meets the eye. You don't put out a man hunt on a guy who has 30 images, especially if he's investigating the case. wake up.

[drdogood123]

08:18 AM on 05/16/2012

With a name like "Pedodave69", it's like you're wishing to be caught. Thank god these pedos aren't the smartest people on earth. Hope you're put away for a very very long time.

[eXpresso]

11:52 AM on 05/16/2012

genius, right?

[Kermit Blackwood]

11:25 PM on 05/16/2012

PTSD? What on earth could he have been not thinking?

[BaldIsBeautiful]

03:14 AM on 05/16/2012

The expression on his face is priceless. Busted!!!

[Progressneeded]

10:31 PM on 05/15/2012

The quality of our law enforcement and armed forces keeps going down. God help us!