LISBON — A Lisbon man accused of possessing multiple images of child pornography in 2023 who was sentenced to 23 and a half years in prison filed an appeal.

Jon Carl Nelder, 44, Saltwell Road, filed the paperwork on his own recently with the 7th District Court of Appeals to challenge the sentence he received Jan. 9 in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court.

Last fall he entered guilty pleas to 18 counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor or impaired person, a fourth-degree felony, and a single count of tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony.

He was originally indicted for 50 pandering counts, with 32 counts dismissed as part of the plea agreement.

He was sentenced to 15 months for each of the 18 pandering counts and 12 months for the tampering with evidence count, with the terms to be served consecutively, for a total of 282 months in prison or 23 years six months.

He was also tagged a Tier II sex offender required to register his address with the sheriff’s office once he gets out of prison.

Nelder was accused of hiding a cell phone under the couch while the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force was executing a search warrant regarding possession of child pornography at his residence on Dec. 7, 2023. The cell phone contained images of child pornography.