(BENTON, IL) — A 22-year-old Fairfield man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to multiple counts of child pornography. Zachary R. Wheeler was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Benton after he pleaded guilty to five counts of child pornography production. Wheeler was arrested last year for the production of child pornography. According to investigators, the offenses occurred in the summer of 2014 in Franklin County. In the indictment, Wheeler was accused of persuading a minor under the age of eighteen to engage in sexually explicit conduct and videotaped the activity. He was also accused of sharing the videos with others via computer.