Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Alex Michael Sellers, 27, has been sentenced to 10 years in state prison, followed by 15 years of sex offender probation, after pleading to 29 child pornography charges.

Sellers was arrested in October 2024 after an Alachua County Sheriff’s Office Detective, acting on a CyberTip, received information from Discord about Sellers’s chats with accounts that claimed to be minors; Sellers allegedly sent nude pictures of himself and requested pictures of “the youngest you got.”

Sellers was originally charged with two counts of obscene communication with a minor under 16, using a computer to solicit a minor, 13 counts of transmitting child pornography, 32 counts of using a two-way communications device to facilitate a felony, and 16 counts of transmitting obscene material to a minor.

On June 12, Sellers entered a plea of nolo contendere to using a computer to solicit a minor, three counts of showing obscene material to a minor, 12 counts of transmission of material harmful to minors, 12 counts of transmitting obscene material to a minor, and solicitation of transmission of child pornography. According to the plea document, the maximum sentence for the charges is 145 years in prison, and Sellers’s score sheet calculated a minimum sentence of 80.175 months (under seven years).

Judge William Davis sentenced Sellers to 10 years in state prison with credit for 35 days served, followed by 15 years of sex offender probation. He will also be designated a Sexual Offender.