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Fort Erie Man Charged with Child Pornography Related Offences

Wednesday, 20 November 2019 12:03

By Marcie Culbert

An FBI investigation into online child exploitation, has lead to the arrest of a 51-year-old Fort Erie man.

The NRP charged him with multiple child pornography related offences yesterday, after executing a search warrant in his hometown.

The charges include two counts of possession, one count of accessing and one count of distributing.

He has also been charged with one count of making written child pornography and two counts of making an arrangement for sexual offence against a child.

The FBI started it's investigation last month.

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