According to an affidavit filed on April 4, 2021, at the LeFlore County Court house, Eric Leroy Standridge, of Poteau has been charged with Possession of Child Pornography and Violation of the Computer Crime Act.

The affidavit, states that on April 24, 2021, Standridge’s ex-wife reported to the LeFlore County Sheriff’s Department that she found forty disks in her home in Wister that belonged to her then-estranged husband Eric Standridge. Mrs. Standridge reported that several of the disks were DVDs with no markings on them, and hot pink in color. Mrs. Standridge loaded a pink disk into her DVD player and found that the pink disk contained child pornography. The video was filmed at a “nudist colony” and showed full nudity of five young teenage girls.

Standridge’s ex-wife also gave written consent for the DVDs and two laptop computers, a gray flip phone, nine USB storage devices and a SD card.

On March 1, 2022, the sheriff’s office interviewed the ex-wife again about where Standridge was living. The officer had been unsuccessful securing a proper address for him because no utilities were listed in his name, and he has not updated his address with the Department of Public Safety.

Standridge had been living in a mobile home park in Poteau but had moved to a different mobile home within the same mobile home park.

The affidavit states that in reviewing more of the disks, there were several more that appear to be files that were downloaded from “peer to peer” programs. On one of the disks, there is a female that “appears to be prepubescent in age” sitting on a couch. After “stripping naked in front of the camera,” she “performs a sex act, using an object on herself.” Another video is a “slideshow of pictures containing naked images of children posing in a sexual manner.” The affidavit states that “these pictures also appear to be downloaded from a peer-to-peer program” based on the watermarks on the media with links to dark web websites.

On March 29, 2022, a search warrant was executed and after officers secured the residence where Standridge lived, they asked Standridge for an interview, but he requested his attorney.

Standridge was allowed to read the search warrant. According to the affidavit, “Standridge made the comment his ex-wife was trying to frame him,” but the officer didn’t inquire because he had requested an attorney.

Standridge was then transported to jail.

The affidavit also states “during the preliminary forensic examination of the computer that was up and running in the master bedroom, multiple files of child sexual exploitation materials were found as well as on the usb drives found next to the computer. These files had been added to the devices after the initial report from Standridge’s ex-wife.”

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