Former FEMA employee sentenced for child pornography possession

A Stephens City FEMA employee who downloaded child pornography on his work-issued laptop computer will spend a year in prison after being sentenced Friday in Loudoun County Circuit Court.

Jonathan Derek Riley,43, a former area radio and karaoke disc jockey known as “J-Rock”, faced up to 10 years behind bars on two counts of possession of child pornography.

The investigation into Riley began in June 2016 when he was a program specialist at FEMA’s Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center, according to court documents.

Mount Weather’s security operations center found “suspicious traffic” on Riley’s computer and upon further examination of the laptop, found 14 images of child pornography. The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security opened an investigation on Riley on April 14, 2017.

The Northern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force was involved in the investigation as well, and located evidence during a Frederick County home search that led to the charges against Riley.

Riley’s laptop computer and his mobile phone showed a number of recent downloads of child pornography including videos,  court records reflect.

Riley, of the 100 block of Rutland Court, was a disc jockey at WINC radio station in Winchester for about five years in the 1990s, according to a station representative.