BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A Nevada man has been sentenced in Bismarck federal court to five years in prison for receiving and possessing a large amount of child pornography.
U.S. Attorney Tim Purdon announced Thursday that 40-year-old Jonathan Holiday, of Reno, Nevada, will have to serve 60 months.
The Bismarck Tribune reports that Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Delorme initially requested a 97-month sentence because of the large quantity of materials. Authorities say Holiday had hundreds of videos and thousands of photos of minors.
The newspaper reports that Holiday had used Twitter to send and receive the materials.
Holiday says he takes responsibility for his actions but that he only had so many files because he mass-loaded them when he was working. Holiday's Nevada-based trucking company frequently operates in the North Dakota oil patch.