Greater Sudbury Police's cyber crime unit arrested three Sudbury men this week after executing four warrants as part of an initiative known as the Provincial Strategy to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation on the Internet.
The four warrants led to the following charges:
-- A 30-year old man faces three counts of Possession Child Pornography, two counts of Accessing Child Pornography.
-- Another Sudbury man faces two counts of Possession Child Pornography, two counts of Accessing Child Pornography, one count of Possession for Purpose of Trafficking Schedule II Substance, one count of Property Obtained by Crime.
-- A Hanmer man faces three counts of Possession Child Pornography, three counts of Accessing Child Pornography, one count of Make Available Child Pornography.
The Provincial Strategy to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation on the Internet is comprised of the OPP Child Sexual Exploitation Section, 26 municipal police services and the Ministries of the Attorney General and Community Safety and Correctional Services.
Coordinated investigations were underway this past week by the 26 police service partners along with the RCMP, South Simcoe Police Service, Stratford Police Service, St. Thomas Police, Canada Border Services Agency, Canadian Forces National Investigation Service and the United States Homeland Security Investigations.
The 26 municipal police services currently in the Provincial Strategy include: Barrie, Brantford, Durham, Guelph, Halton, Hamilton, Kingston, London, Niagara, Ottawa, Peel, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Waterloo, Windsor, York, Belleville, Chatham-Kent, Cornwall, North Bay, Peterborough, Sarnia, Timmins and Woodstock.
