PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Pike County man has been sentenced to serve three years in prison on child porn charges.

Zachary Conn, 20, of Pikeville, pleaded guilty back in June to five counts of distributing and 23 counts of possessing child pornography.

He was arrested in January of 2021, after the Kentucky State Police Electronic Crimes Branch discovered that he had been possessing and uploading child porn from his Elisha Fork home.

Following his sentencing on Friday, he was taken into custody. He is currently being held in the Pike County Detention Center.