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](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/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](https://takedownindex.org/people/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](https://takedownindex.org/sources/united-states-department-of-justice-south-korean-national-and-hundreds-of-others), 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](https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/south-korean-national-and-hundreds-others-charged-worldwide-takedown-largest-darknet) [All court cases](https://takedownindex.org/cases)