FRONT ROYAL, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – A Charlottesville man has been sentenced in Warren County Circuit Court to 40 years — 15 or which is active incarceration — for using an electronic device to solicit a child and distributing child pornography. 54-year old Avery Wood was sentenced February 14 and will be placed on supervised probation following release. In November 2022, a detective with the Front Royal Police Department conducting an undercover operation online contacted the Office of the Attorney General’s Computer Crimes Section after Wood began soliciting whom he believed to be a 13-year-old girl for sexually explicit material and sent child pornography videos and explicit images of himself to the undercover detective. During the investigation, Wood traveled to a hotel in Front Royal to meet with the “minor,” where he was subsequently arrested. He admitted what he did, and a subsequent forensic investigation confirmed.