A former Escambia County firefighter was sentenced to 75 years in federal prison for a "decade-long pattern" of producing and possessing child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced March 4.

Garey Buscaino, a 48-year-old from Pensacola who was fired as an Escambia firefighter following his arrest in 2025, previously pleaded guilty to five counts of child pornography production and one count of child pornography possession.

"Protecting our children from exploitation and the predations of sick individuals like this offender remains one of my office’s highest priorities," U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida John Heekin said. "I deeply appreciate the outstanding investigative work of our state and federal law enforcement partners who helped stop this predator from continuing to sexually exploit minor children and brought him to justice. As this substantial prison sentence demonstrates, my office will relentlessly pursue offenders who victimize our children, prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law, and seek maximum punishment for their heinous crimes."

Special agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested Buscaino May 15, 2025, after numerous photo and video files depicting child sexual abuse material were discovered.

Law enforcement first looked into Buscaino when a special agent received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children April 29, 2025, pertaining to a user of a common cloud storage account downloading multiple files of child sexual abuse material.

A phone number listed under Buscaino had uploaded 33 files of CSAM on March 8. Among the over 5,000 files discovered, special agents discovered over 1,000 files of "child erotica" that did not meet the statutory requirements for CSAM, but they did find 96 files of video taken by Buscaino of a girl without her knowledge.

According to FDLE reports, one of the videos taken by Buscaino shows another person in the background, which special agents used to link the video to Buscaino.

Special Agents then used this to conduct a search warrant on Buscaino's home.

"During the execution of the search warrant, hidden cameras were located within Buscaino's bedroom," the FDLE reports said. "One was disguised as a vape/electronic cigarette, and another disguised as a wall charger.

"Several GoPro style cameras were also recovered from the residence," the report added. "An on-scene forensic examination of the SD cards within the cameras revealed the same voyeuristic video file of the (teen girl)."

Multiple USB drivers were recovered from Buscaino's home, which contained over 100 files of additional CSAM.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office release, multiple of Buscaino's victims appeared in court for the sentencing.

This article originally appeared on Pensacola News Journal: Garey Buscaino ex-Escambia firefighter gets 75 years for child porn