SOUTH BEND — Jonathan Roberts, 33, Warsaw, was sentenced on Tuesday, March 10, before U.S. District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty for possession of child pornography.

According to a statement from U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II, Roberts was sentenced to 63 months in prison, 5 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution.

In August 2017, Roberts possessed a cellphone that contained videos and pictures of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Roberts later admitted that the pictures on the cellphone he possessed were in fact child pornography.

The case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations and the Federal Bureau of Investigations. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney John Maciejczyk.