A resident of The Dalles was sentenced to federal prison Tuesday for transporting and possessing thousands of images depicting child sexual abuse.  27-year-old Nickolas K. Parsons was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison and 10 years’ supervised release.  According to federal court documents, in late 2019, as part of an ongoing investigation, officers identified a Twitter user who sent two links to child pornography via MEGA, an encrypted online file sharing service.  Investigators traced the user’s Twitter account to Parsons’ residence in The Dalles where, in March 2020, they executed a federal search warrant.  After seizing his mobile phone, Parsons admitted to viewing child pornography online and provided investigators with his MEGA account information.  The account was later found to contain thousands of files containing child pornography.  On June 9, 2020, a federal grand jury in Portland returned a two-count indictment charging Parsons with transporting and possessing child pornography and he plead guilty to both charges in February of this year.