A former postal worker in Madison County was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for downloading and sharing child porn, federal prosecutors said.
Ryan Berte, 33, kept the files on a flash drive and a laptop while he was a mail carrier between February and March 2021, prosecutors from the Northern District of New York said in a news release.
Berte would share the files with others through his laptop, prosecutors said. During a search of his home in September 2021, Berte had hundreds of child porn files on the laptop, they said.
The U.S. Postal Service’s Office of the Inspector General also found that Berte kept mail that was meant to be delivered, according to court documents.
Chief U.S. District Judge Brenda Sannes added a 15-year term of supervised release to Berte’s sentence.
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