(Citrus County, FL) Yesterday, 76-year-old Michael Francis Coburn was sentenced to 215 years in the Florida Department of Corrections. Coburn was charged with ten felony counts of Possession of Child Pornography (10 or more Images), three counts of Possession of Child Pornography, and ten counts of Transmission of Child Pornography by Electronic Device.

Coburn was arrested back in October of 2024, following an extensive investigation led by Detective Patrick Martin of the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office High Tech Crimes Unit (HTCU), in collaboration with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force.

The investigation began when Detective Martin received a report from NCMEC indicating the presence of potential child pornography linked to a residence in Citrus County. Utilizing advanced investigative techniques, he confirmed that Coburn possessed numerous images and videos of child sexual abuse material.

Following these findings, Detective Martin and the CCSO Criminal Investigations Division (CID) executed a search warrant at Coburn’s residence. Several digital storage devices were seized as evidence during the search. Coburn was arrested and booked into the Citrus County Detention Facility.

“I commend the detective in this case for following up on this report and apprehending the defendant,” said Bill Gladson, Fifth Judicial Circuit State Attorney. “Officials collected 37.4 gigabytes of child porn during their investigation. That’s a massive amount of this illicit content. To put this into perspective, if you were to use this much data on a cellular plan, it would allow you to browse the web for nearly 4,000 hours.”

This case was successfully prosecuted by Assistant State Attorney Kaitlyn Mannis.

Published on 06/17/2026.