United States v. Scott Sholds

COLLOTON, Circuit Judge.

Scott Sholds pleaded guilty to four counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. The district court 1 sentenced Sholds to 960 months’ imprisonment, in the middle of the advisory guideline range. Sholds appeals the substantive reasonableness of his sentence. We see no abuse of discretion and therefore affirm.

The investigation of Sholds arose in April 2014 when Floyd Treash called the Fayetteville Police Department to report that Sholds was in wrongful possession of Treash’s cellular telephone. After police contacted Sholds,…