DEA EMPLOYEE KILLS SELF OVER CHILD PORN SUSPICION

PFMLIT CALIFORNIA, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, General, INTERNET OFFENDER CASES

Charles Carlon, 41, a civilian employee of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, fired a bullet into his head while alone in a room waiting to be interrogated.  He was suspected of using his computer to download child pornography.  He apparently died instantly.  Carlon's

body was discovered shortly after 11 a.m. in a training room on the 20th floor of the Roybal federal building with a 45-caliber weapon found beside him.  The gun was his personal property and registered in his name.  Federal law makes it a felony punishable by five years or more in

prison to download child pornography from the Internet.