Court case
United States v. Jong Woo Son
United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Docket 1:18-cr-00243.
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Docket number
- 1:18-cr-00243
- Linked takedowns
- 1
- People named
- 1
Case record
- Court
- United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Docket number
- 1:18-cr-00243
- Status
- Indictment returned under seal 2018-08-09 and unsealed 2019-10-16; defendant remains in South Korea after the Seoul High Court refused extradition in July 2020
- Status verified
- Not established
- Dataset id
- case_us_v_jong_woo_son
The date this status was last checked is not recorded.
What this case entry is.
This entry records a court docket the audit located and checked: the case name, the court, the docket number where one is published, and the status the cited sources establish. It is not a summary of proceedings and it does not stand in for the docket itself.
A case listed here does not establish that anyone named on this page is guilty. Charges are accusations only. Where a cited source records a conviction or a guilty plea, that outcome is attributed to the source and this index asserts nothing beyond it.
Sources for this entry were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 23, 2026.
Takedowns linked to this case
1 takedown record in this index is linked to this case.
- Welcome to Video seizure . Child sexual abuse material, March 2018
People named in this case
1 person in this index is recorded as named in this case.
- Jong Woo Son . No alias recorded
Sources
1 source support this entry. Each one is listed with the role it was relied on for.
- South Korean National and Hundreds of Others Charged Worldwide in the Takedown of the Largest Darknet Child Pornography Website, Which was Funded by Bitcoin , Primary source . United States Department of Justice, October 16, 2019 . https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/south-korean-national-and-hundreds-others-charged-worldwide-takedown-largest-darknet