Court case
United States v. Steven W. Chase
United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Docket number
- Not published
- Linked takedowns
- 1
- People named
- 3
Case record
- Court
- United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Docket number
- Not published
- Status
- Convicted by jury 2016-09-16; sentenced 2017-05-01 to 30 years. Co-defendants Fluckiger and Browning pleaded guilty December 2015 and were sentenced to 240 months each.
- Status verified
- August 23, 2026
- Dataset id
- case_us_v_chase
The status line was checked against the public record on August 23, 2026. Proceedings may have moved since.
What this case entry is.
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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.
- Operation Pacifier / Playpen . Child sexual abuse material, February 2015
People named in this case
3 people in this index are recorded as named in this case.
- David Lynn Browning . No alias recorded
- Michael Fluckiger . No alias recorded
- Steven W. Chase . No alias recorded
Sources
1 source support this entry. Each one is listed with the role it was relied on for.
- Florida Man Sentenced to Prison for Engaging in a Child Exploitation Enterprise , Primary source . FBI / US DOJ, May 1, 2017 . https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/florida-man-sentenced-prison-engaging-child-exploitation-enterprise