Kamil Mezalka, 21, faces a federal charge of downloading child pornography over the Internet, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. If convicted, he faces a minimum of five years and up to 20 years in federal prison.
According to a federal affidavit, agents obtained a search warrant Tuesday for the man's Lansdowne Lane home and entered the residence after nobody answered the door.
After agents made their way into the house, Mezalka came out of a second-floor bedroom with his hands up, then went back in and closed the door, the affidavit shows. Agents followed him into the room and found him in his underwear and observed him stab the console of his computer before taking him into custody, according to the affidavit.
When interviewed by federal agents, Mezalka said he was attracted to teenage girls and "might have" downloaded pornography depicting girls 13 years old and younger, the affidavit shows.
Federal agents conducted a forensic analysis of computers in Mezalka's residence, including the desktop computer he stabbed, and discovered hundreds of images depicting child porn.
In April, Mezalka was credited by deputies for defending his mother from his stepfather using a Samurai sword.
Flagler deputies say Zbigniew Supinski, 63, was choking his wife in the master bedroom and threatened her with a gun when Mezalka, armed with a 2-foot Samurai sword, ordered his stepfather "off his mother."
Agents noted in the affidavit regarding Mezalka's arrest that there were several swords on the floor, on shelves and on the wall of his bedroom. Authorities also found a loaded two-barrel pistol on the floor, the affidavit shows.
The case was investigated by the Flagler County Sheriff's Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
[Daytona Beach News-Journal]
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