St. Johns man gives up Julington Creek home as part of porn sentence

A Julington Creek Plantation man has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography by computer. He also has to forfeit his home and pay restitution.

Investigators raided the home of Darrell Mark Krause last year and seized his computer and three external hard disk drives that contained 17,100 digital photos and 1,400 videos depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

U.S. District Judge Henry Lee Adams Jr. this week sentenced Krause, 42, to the prison term to be followed by 10 years of supervised release. Krause was ordered to pay $3,220 in restitution to one of his victims depicted in his pornographic images. He also agreed to forfeit his St. Johns County home at 292 Maplewood Drive to the federal government because he used it to commit the offense.

-Jessie-Lynne Kerr, Times-Union