A 39-year-old Mesa man has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for attempted production of sex abuse material, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Jeremy Carson Lamb was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Arizona district, said Thursday.

Lamb pleaded guilty June 13 to one count of attempted production of child pornography. 

In late 2019, according to the release, Lamb traveled from Phoenix to Sierra Vista to meet and engage in sexual conduct with a person he believed to be a 14-year-old minor and had attempted to obtain sexually explicit images of the minor.

Lamb was found with “a large quantity of videos and images depicting children as young as 1-year-old being sexually abused. The investigation confirmed that Lamb had distributed many child exploitation files to others,” the release stated.

“This defendant has no respect for laws and boundaries,” U.S. Attorney Gary Restaino said.

“When an undercover law enforcement officer posted an online profile pretending to be a young girl, the defendant engaged in a two-week effort to entice, induce and lure. We appreciate the investigative efforts by Homeland Security Investigations to protect the community from the defendant.”

When Lamb is released from prison, he will be on supervised release for the remainder of his life and will be required to register as a sex offender.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice.