Man sentenced to 110 years for hacking, extortion

By Sharon Gaudin

December 5, 2007 12:00 PM ET

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During the search, FBI agents seized a Sony Vaio desktop computer, a 250GB external hard drive, mini video cassettes, Zip disks and DVDs.

According to the court documents, the FBI imaged some of the girls' computers during their investigation and went online using assumed identities. They were then able to record communications being made by the hackers.

In conjunction with the evidence found on Dickerson's computer in relation to his hacking and extortion scheme, the U.S. Attorney's office reported that FBI agents also found more than 600 pornographic images of children.

"Typically, most of the computer crime cases here in this office are of people collecting child pornography that's already out there," said Handberg. "In my office in Orlando, I've never heard of anyone hacking to extort child pornography."

Dickerson had pleaded guilty in the Orlando court in August to two counts of unlawful computer intrusions and to one count of conspiracy to manufacture child pornography. He pleaded guilty to two more child pornography charges a month later.

Handberg said that the investigation is ongoing and a second arrest has not yet been made.

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