A Danville man was sentenced to 87 months in prison Friday.

45 year old Leonard Riley pled guilty in January to transporting child pornography using the Internet.

According to Riley’s plea agreement, he admitted that in July of 2017, he was in possession of 23 images and two videos of child pornography on his smart phone.  

Under federal law, Riley must serve 85 percent of his prison sentence, and upon his release from prison will be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for 10 years.

Carlton S. Shier, IV, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; Jerry Templet, Special Agent in Charge, and Colonel Phillip Burnett, Commissioner of the Kentucky State Police, announced the sentence.

The investigation was conducted by the Department of Homeland Security – Homeland Security Investigations, and KSP-Electronic Crime Branch.