Local News in Brief : Innocent Plea in Porn Case
An Italian businessman pleaded innocent Monday to charges that he shipped child pornography from Italy to an undercover officer in California.
Alesandro Moncini of Trieste pleaded not guilty to three counts of violating the Child Protection Act by allegedly mailing photographs and a videotape of children engaged in sex to an undercover police officer at a Valencia address in November and December, 1986.
He faces trial May 24 before U.S. District Judge Ronald Lew.
Moncini was arrested March 18 at Kennedy International Airport in New York as he stepped off a plane from Italy. Prosecutors said he had come to the United States to meet with the undercover officer, who had been posing as a pornography customer.
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