Local man faces 11 years in federal prison, documents detail tens of thousands of images of CSAM
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POCATELLO — A 34-year-old man was sentenced to 11 years after pleading guilty to federal charges for receiving explicit content of children.
Clint Layne Lusk was initially indicted by a federal grand jury for receipt of child pornography on March 25, 2025, and later pleaded guilty to the federal charge in September.
Lusk was originally charged in 2024 in the district court with one felony count of enticing a child through the use of the internet. These charges were dropped in favor of the federal indictment.
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The 34-year-old was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David C. Nye on April 21 to 135 months in federal prison and 15 years of supervised release. He is also required to pay $45,000 in restitution and register as a sex offender.
EastIdahoNews.com previously reported that his 2024 arrest was the result of a joint undercover investigation by the Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Pocatello Police Department.
Lusk had been messaging an undercover agent posing as a 13-year-old girl on the messaging app Whisper.
In the conversation Lusk had with the undercover agent, the man had given his age, and later on, the conversation became sexual in nature.
Lusk had arranged to meet with the agent at a hotel to engage in sex. The agent agreed to meet with him at the hotel in Pocatello, where he was arrested.
A search warrant was obtained, and during the search, investigators found 52,543 images of child sexual abuse materials.