WINNIPEG — A Minnesota man has been sentenced in a Winnipeg courtroom to 30 months behind bars after admitting he tried to smuggle child pornography into Canada.
The Canada Border Services Agency says in a release that Minnesota resident Robert William Roske entered a guilty plea Tuesday in provincial court to charges laid under the Customs Act.
Court heard that Roske was arrested as he was trying to enter the country last July at the Sprague Man., crossing, where agency officers discovered suspected porn images when they checked his electronic equipment.
Investigators seized the property and later found a total of 1,954 images and 389 video files of child pornography belonging to Roske.
The sentence is believed to be the longest handed down so far in Manitoba for a case involving cross-border smuggling of child pornography.
The CBSA says so far this year, officers in the Prairies region have made five suspected child pornography seizures.