Two Arkansas men both received prison terms of more than 20 years Wednesday in separate child porn cases, authorities said.
A federal judge sentenced 33-year-old Carlos Arcia of Russellville to 22 years, an attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas said.
Wednesday's sentence came after Arcia pleaded guilty to producing child pornography of an infant girl in April, according to U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland.
U.S. District Court Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. ruled that upon completion of his sentence, Arcia will remain on supervised release, which includes registering as a sex offender and having no contact with minors for the rest of his life.
Hiland said a 2015 investigation into Arcia's home yielded three laptop computers, four hard drives and several other electronic devices that contained more than 1,800 still photos and more than 600 videos of child pornography.
In the videos Arcia created, he went to stores, laundromats and other locations, where he would sneak behind women and film up their skirts, authorities said. He later began filming himself performing sexual acts at those location, according to a news release.
In a case out of the state's Second Judicial District, 43-year-old Shane I. Thompson was sentenced to 20 years after pleading guilty to four counts of of distributing, possessing and viewing matter depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child.
According to a news release from Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington, Thompson also received a 10-year suspended sentence and must register as a sex offender when he is released from prison.
An investigation into Thompson began in October 2017 after Arkansas State Police got a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the release states. Authorities said "multiple digital devices containing explicit child pornography" when his home was searched April 13 of this year.
In a statement, Ellington said: "My office will always take a tough stance
on the users and distributors of child pornography in our community to protect our children from the devastating physical, social, and psychological effects of these crimes."
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette editor Jillian Kremer contributed to this story.