West Point Man Faces Child Porn Charge

Marcus Knight

Marcus Knight

WEST POINT, Miss. (Press Release) — A West Point resident has been arrested for possession of child pornography, announced Attorney General Jim Hood today.

Marcus Wilburn Knight, 49, of West Point, was arrested Thursday, May 15, by the Attorney General’s Cyber Crime Unit/Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, with assistance from the West Point Police Department, and charged with one count of possession of child pornography. Knight was booked into the West Point Police Department. Bond has not yet been set.

The West Point Police Department is a member of the Attorney General’s ICAC Task Force.

If convicted, he faces up to 40 years behind bars. As with all cases, the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

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