{"id":480588,"date":"2026-10-29T18:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480588\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T18:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:46:08","slug":"lubbock-man-sentenced-to-90-years-in-federal-prison-for-producing-child-sexual-abuse-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480588\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock man sentenced to 90 years in federal prison for producing child sexual abuse material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A 33-year-old Lubbock man will spend the next 90 years in federal prison after he was convicted for producing child sexual abuse material, federal officials announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Eric Blake Fira was sentenced to 1,080 months behind bars by U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix. Fira pleaded guilty on July 6 to three counts of production of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to court records, Fira coerced a minor into illegal conduct between February and December 2025 and recorded the abuse using his cell phone. Authorities launched an investigation on Jan. 21 after the child made an outcry to the Crosby County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators executing a forensic search of Fira\u2019s phone discovered multiple recordings made in Lubbock and Crosbyton. GPS records confirmed that at least one video was recorded inside a Lubbock hotel room Fira had rented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fira admitted he knew the victim was under 18 and acknowledged using a device manufactured outside Texas, establishing federal jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The case was investigated by the FBI, the Lubbock Police Department, the Crosby County Sheriff\u2019s Office and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Rancourt. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A 33-year-old Lubbock man will spend the next 90 years in federal prison after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[10303,75673,294,23218,162020,160880,319,251,168,170,169],"class_list":["post-480588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-child-sex-abuse","tag-child-sex-crimes","tag-crime","tag-crosby-county","tag-eric-blake-fira","tag-federal-sentencing","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}