A 15-year federal prison sentence was imposed Tuesday on a Prairie City man for possession of child pornography. Fifty-five-year-old Anthony Charles VanMeter was also issued a 2-year federal prison term for revocation of his supervised release, and ordered to pay $24,000 in restitution.

According to court documents, VanMeter was on federal supervised release for a 2016 possession of child pornography conviction. But in October of last year, law enforcement officers found him with another individual under federal supervision, and in possession of a cellphone that included more than 75 photographs and 250 videos involving child sexual abuse. There is no parole on a federal prison sentence. VanMeter will be required to serve a 10-year term of supervised release once his prison time has been served. The Prairie City man’s case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse.