Phenix City man charged with possession of child pornography; multiple images of juveniles found
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- Phenix City man Bryan Kelly Blackwood arrested with 10 child pornography counts after search warrant found images on electronic devices.
- Blackwood is registered sex offender previously convicted of receipt of child pornography in 2018, now facing additional charges.
A Phenix City man is facing charges connected to a child pornography case in Lee County.
Image: Lee County Sheriff’s Office
The arrest came after Lee County Sheriff’s Office along with Federal Probation Officers and the Department of Homeland Security executed a search warrant on April 30, 2025, in the 400 block of Lee Road 436. The search warrant was executed after an Internet Crimes Against Children tip was received by officials.
During the search warrant, multiple electronic devices were recovered from the residence, including a cell phone. Investigators located multiple images from a cell phone depicting pornographic images of juvenile females and males that appeared to be under the age of 18.
Officials say 41-year-old Bryan Kelly Blackwood has been arrested and charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography. He is being held in the Lee County Jail on a $100,000.00 bond. Additional charges are expected.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the Lee County Sheriff’s Office at 334-749-5651 or Central Alabama Crime Stoppers at 334-215-STOP (7867).
NOT HIS FIRST TIME
CNAW2News has confirmed Blackwood is a registered sex offender and this is the second time in less than a decade that he has been involved in a child pornography case.
Blackwood pled guilty on July 19, 2018 on the offense of “receipt of child pornography”. According to the court documents, Blackwood was to remain in custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to be imprisoned for 96 months and remanded to the custody of the US Marshals. Upon release from imprisonment, he was on a 5-year supervised release.
In the 2018 court docs, it is listed that he must must cooperate in the collection of DNA as directed by the probation officer and that he must comply with the requirements of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act ( U.S.C. § , et seq.) as directed by the probation officer, the Bureau of Prisons, or any state sex offender registration agency in wh you reside, work, are a student, or were convicted of a qualifying offense.
In the 2018 court docs, it also advised that the Mr. Blackwood shall forfeit the defendant’s interest in the following property to the United States: one Asus, model G50V, laptop computer; one 32GB Sandisk Cruzer thumb drive, sn: BM130723461B; and one 4GB Sandisk Cruzer thumb drive, sn: BH10060HUB.
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