UPDATE: Salisbury man sentenced for distribution of child pornography

A Salisbury man has been sentenced, after was was caught distributing child pornography.

On Tuesday, 52-year-old David Andrews was sentenced to six years in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for for distribution of child pornography. Andrews, who was already a registered sex offender, will have to continue to register as one for the rest of his life.

Andrews pleaded guilty back in July. The charges stem from an investigation where a Detective with the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office was investigating file sharing software that was being used to share child pornography, which was traced back to Andrews’ Salisbury home.

In June 2014, a search warrant was executed on Andrews’ home, but Investigators say they initially didn’t find any devices with child pornography, but later learned that Andrews had seen law enforcement surveilling and photographing his home and wiped the memory of his hard-drive.

Eventually, Andrews led investigators to a truck tire in the back yard of the empty house next door, where law enforcement recovered a gallon zip lock bag with a hard drive, and a tablet computer inside. Officials say a forensic analysis of the tablet recovered 142 images of child pornography, but weren’t able to recover anything from the hard drive.

Andrews had previously been arrested in 2014, during operation “Worcester Safety Net.”