A 26-year-old from Blount County will spend the next 189 months, or just under 16 years, in prison following a federal sentencing hearing on Wednesday, April 16.

Law enforcement found 4,324 images of child pornography that Gerdeman had received on various dates, according to the DOJ.

Sedgwick County will discuss settling a lawsuit filed by two women who a former detention deputy sexually victimized.