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Sudbury man hit with multiple child pornography charges

Police had been investigating individual as far back as January
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A 26-year-old Greater Sudbury man was arrested and charged with multiple child pornography offences after a months-long investigation. (File)

A 26-year-old Greater Sudbury man was arrested and charged with multiple child pornography offences after a months-long investigation.

In January, a 26-year-old man from Greater Sudbury was arrested for an unrelated matter. As a result of his arrest, Greater Sudbury Police Services received court-ordered authorization to forensically examine a cell phone in his possession. 

During the examination, the computer forensic unit found child pornography on the device.

In the same month, an email service provider reported a person from Greater Sudbury emailing child pornography to another person on the Internet. A few months later in April, a chat application reported a person from Greater Sudbury sending child pornography to another user of the chat application.

During the three investigations, Greater Sudbury Police Service Patrol Operations and Internet Child Exploitation Unit executed five court orders authorizing police to gather account information, computer forensic evidence, as well as, the authority to search a Greater Sudbury residence on June 18.

Based on the evidence gathered from the execution of the court orders, detectives were able to identify the man believed to be responsible for the incidents. 

On June 18, members of the I.C.E. Unit with assistance from the Tactical Unit arrested a 26-year-old man from Greater Sudbury.

He has been charged with the following offences:

  • Access Child Pornography (three counts)
  • Possession of Child Pornography (three counts)
  • Distribution of Child Pornography (two counts)
  • Breach of Probation (16 counts

He attended Bail Court on Friday, June 19 to answer to the charges.