Prosecutors say he violated pretrial release by posting photos.
By Associated Press
Published December 18, 2005
BARTOW - The man who runs a pornographic Web site that includes pictures of Iraqi war dead is back in jail for operating the site as he awaits trial on obscenity charges.
Prosecutors argued Friday that Chris Wilson, a 28-year-old former policeman from Lakeland, violated his pretrial release by putting up new sexually explicit pictures, said Chip Thullbery, administrative assistant state attorney.
Wilson removed the photos and videos from his site when he was told that was a problem, said Larry Walters, Wilson's lawyer.
"Apparently that wasn't good enough for the state or sufficient for the judge," he said.
Wilson was arrested Oct. 7 on 300 misdemeanor counts of possessing and distributing obscene materials and one felony count of wholesale promotion of obscene materials.
His site made national news and launched a Pentagon investigation when war zone photos of charred and dismembered bodies described as victims of U.S. attacks showed up on his site. In return for the photographic "proof" they were in a war zone, Wilson said, he gave soldiers free access. He posted them to provide an "unfiltered" view of life in Iraq, he has said.
Wilson will be jailed until his next scheduled court date, a pretrial conference on Feb. 7.
