Staff report

A Nederland man was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple cases of possession of child pornography.

Jefferson County Criminal District Attorney Bob Wortham announced that Judge Raquel West sentenced Clifton Cisco, 35, for possession of child pornography. In addition to his sentence, he must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

Cisco was arrested in November 2017 after images of child pornography and of Cisco himself were found on his phone. In an issued statement, Wortham said Cisco confessed to possessing the images and was arrested.

He was indicted for multiple cases of possession of child pornography. West imposed two consecutive 10-year sentences.

The district attorney’s office said the case started when Sgt. Thomas Hruskocy, an investigator with the Texas Attorney General’s Office, received a CyberTipline report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on Nov. 2 that a Dropbox user had uploaded 64 files of child pornography. Dropbox, a cloud-based digital storage tool, reported the child pornography to NCMEC.

Hruskocy reviewed the material, connected Cisco to the Dropbox account and executed a search warrant at Cisco’s residence in Nederland on Nov. 28.