THUNDER BAY -- A city man has been sentenced to six months in jail on child pornography charges.
Archie Hogan was sentenced on March 30 to the jail time followed by 18 months of probation on the charge of making child pornography available.
He was also ordered to submit a DNA sample and was issued a 10-year ban on attending parks, schools and other places where children frequent. He also has to report to the sex offender registry for 10 years.
A charge of possession of child pornography was withdrawn.
Hogan was one of more than 50 people charged in a province-wide online child exploitation investigation in September 2014.
Ninety-nine search warrants were executed, resulting in 249 charges against 60 people, including two Thunder Bay men.
In addition to Hogan, 35-year-old Jason M. Caron was charged with one count of possession of child pornography and one count of making child pornography available.
Caron’s trial is set for May 10 at the Thunder Bay Courthouse.
