Man gets 25 years for possession of child pornography

ALTHA -- Douglas Bruce L‘Heureux of Altha was sentenced to 25 years in prison for possessing child pornography, officials with the State Attorney’s Office wrote in a news release.

L’Heureux pleaded guilty to 78 counts of possessing images of child pornography, but he pleaded no contest to five counts Jan. 15. Circuit Judge Allen Register then sentenced the 66-year-old L’Heureux to five years in prison on each count to run consecutively to each other.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement initiated an investigation of L’Heureux after receiving information from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in July, including emails from L’Heureux containing child pornography, officials wrote in a news release.