GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, July 13, 2023) – A 34-year-old Zeeland man could spend up to nearly four decades in federal prison on child pornography distribution charges.
Judge Paul Maloney handed down a 38-year-long sentence on Thursday to Matthew James Warne at the US District Courthouse in Grand Rapids. Warne had pled guilty on March 30th.
The case stems from a report from the convicted man’s workplace of an inappropriate filming in a bathroom. Investigators from both the FBI and the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department uncovered thousands of images and videos of child pornography that Warne shared online through the social media app Telegram, which he also used to chat with other individuals about child porn. When he was arrested, the convicted man was on parole, and had two prior state convictions on criminal sexual conduct charges.
In addition to the prison sentence, Maloney also ordered Warne to 10 years probation.
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