ZIMMERMAN, Minn. -- A Zimmerman man who generated so much heat from the use of his computers that his parents used it to heat their Sherburne County home has been found guilty of distributing child pornography.

U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger said Wednesday that Levi Wayne Burns, 40, who lived in his parents’ basement, was found guilty in a jury trial on federal charges of distribution after last Friday pleading guilty to possessing child pornography.

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According to the defendant’s guilty plea and as proven at trial, in January 2014, Burns shared electronically several files containing images and videos of child pornography, including a video depicting two female children between the ages of 10 and 14 engaged in sexual acts.

Luger said Burns stored and shared child pornography and had a large number of computers, including a specially built one, and that the heat given off was enough to warm the home that winter, one of the coldest in recent Minnesota history. He had thousands of files of child pornography on one of his hard drives, Luger said.

A sentencing date has not yet been set.