Navy tech charged for allegedly uploading child porn to message board

from staff reports | Pensacola News Journal

An active member of the U.S. Navy has been arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography.

Galen Robert Kountz, 43, was booked into the Escambia County Jail Wednesday without bond on one count of obscene material possession.

Kountz is a cryptologic intelligence technician with the Navy, according to FDLE.

Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children indicating that a suspect had uploaded child pornography to a message board.

The investigation led agents to Kountz's home in the 600 block of Dallas Avenue in Pensacola, where he was arrested.

Kountz allegedly had a video containing child pornography on an external hard drive, according to FDLE.