A Lawrence man was sentenced on Tuesday to serve nearly six years in prison for distributing child pornography, according to a release from Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall’s office.

Tyler Padden, 35, was indicted on Oct. 29, 2014, on one count of distributing child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography.

In June 2013, the FBI seized three laptops, one desktop computer and two thumb drives, according to the indictment, which was filed in Federal Court for the District of Kansas.

On the computers and storage devices Padden had 2,000 images and 800 videos of child pornography, the release said. He also installed seven file-sharing programs on his computer that allowed other users to download images from his collection of child pornography.

Police launched an investigation after a detective with the Overland Park Police Department used the internet to download child pornography from Padden’s computer.

Padden pleaded guilty to one count of possessing child pornography on Oct. 19, 2015. He was originally scheduled to be sentenced in January, but the court appearance was pushed back several times because of scheduling conflicts.

On Tuesday Padden was sentenced to serve 70 months in prison for his conviction.

Beall commended the Overland Park Police Department, the FBI and Assistant U.S. Attorney Kim Flannigan for their work on the case.