WILKES-BARRE — A Hazle Township man was sentenced Thursday for possessing child sexual abuse materials.
Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Vough sentenced Gregory F. Yorker, 53, of Hollywood Boulevard, to nine to 23 months at the county correctional facility on six counts of child pornography. Yorker pled guilty to the charges Oct. 15.
Yorker was also sentenced to three years probation and subject to 15 years registration of his address under the state’s Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act.
Detectives with the district attorney’s office arrested Yorker after executing a search warrant at his residence on Nov. 30, 2023, while investigating a Cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The Cyber tip was linked to an email and phone number registered to Yorker and involved an image of a girl, according to court records.
A forensic extraction of data from Yorker’s cellular phone uncovered five files of children engaged in sex acts, court records say.
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