Kings Bay sailor, St. Marys man arrested on child porn charges

Two men, including one in the military, were arrested in Camden County on suspicion of possessing and distributing child pornography.

Camden County deputies and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force investigated Joseph Johnson, 38, and Navy sailor Bryan Chancellor, 33, for three weeks.

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Johnson was arrested Jan. 10  for having and distributing child pornography and for possessing marijuana. Chancellor was arrested Tuesday and charged with possessing and distributing child pornography.

“We had no idea anything like that was going on, he just seemed like a family guy,” said Jasmine Hewitt, a neighbor.

Jasmine Hewitt, a mother of a small child lives next door to Johnson. “It’s just scary. You don’t know who is living next door,” she says.

According to Johnson’s Facebook page, he’s a husband and father of two small children.

The other suspect is Bryan Chancellor is a husband, a father of three small children and a sailor with the U.S, Navy at Kings Bay. Chancellor was arrested in his uniform.

"Very serious charges," said Captain Larry Bruce with the Camden County Sheriff's Office tells Action News Jax. 

"Once they saw the one video that each one of them were observing, that was enough right there, they said we've got enough to charge these people," Captain Bruce said.

"You think you can send your kids outside to go play, and you don't know who they are playing with," Hewitt said.

Action News Jax checked both Johnson and Chancellor's criminal history, and didn't find anything in the state of Georgia.

"It is a shame that there are people in this world that take advantage of innocent children by producing such immoral and illicit images of sexual deviant monsters," Camden County Sheriff Jim Proctor. "It sickens me that they live among us every day."

The investigation continues and more charges are possible.

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