Cape Cod Sex Offender Gets 10 Years On Latest Charges

CAPE COD, MA — A Level 3 sex offender from Cape Cod who has a history of violence will serve a decade in prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts announced.

Jonathan Fleischmann, 37, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs to 10 years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release. Fleischmann was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $7,500.

In July 2024, Fleischmann pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography. Fleischmann was previously arrested and charged on May 16, 2023, and remains in federal custody.

Fleishmann is a Level 3 sex offender due to prior convictions in Barnstable District Court of Indecent Assault and Battery on a Child Under 14 in 2006, as well as Open and Gross Lewdness and Possession of Child Pornography in 2017 for masturbating to CSAM in a Honey Dew Donuts parking lot.

Additionally, in September 2020, Fleischmann was charged in Barnstable Superior Court with home invasion, armed kidnapping and assault to rape for invading a Yarmouth home and forcibly taking a 16-year-old female at gunpoint into her house as she arrived home from school.

That investigation also revealed that Fleishmann had accessed a dark web hidden service on his cellphone dedicated to the trafficking of child pornography. He was later released in April 2021 on conditions including cash bail and GPS monitoring.

Fleischmann is prohibited from possessing digital devices due to his prior convictions.

According to the charging documents, Fleischmann’s co-workers reported to law enforcement that, between March 17 and March 18, 2023, Fleischmann’s cellphone was allegedly observed downloading suspected child pornography files while his phone was left open and charging on a counter at their workplace.

A subsequent search of Fleischmann’s cellphone allegedly identified approximately 255 image files and 55 video files that contained suspected child pornography, officials said.

Fleischmann has remained in federal custody since his May 2023 arrest in this case. In May 2024, he was sentenced to 12 years in state prison in connection with the Yarmouth home invasion.

He was released into state custody to serve the 12-year state sentence, which will run concurrently with the federal sentence imposed today.