A Christina Lake man has been arrested and sentenced to one year in jail for possession and distribution of child pornography.
His name has not yet been released by police.
Grand Forks RCMP and the Integrated Child Exploitation (ICE) team out of Vancouver worked together to obtain information to arrest the individual according to Grand Forks RCMP's Staff Sgt. Jim Harrison.
“It was a four-day investigation and everything came together really quickly,” he explained. “The individual was charged with possession of child pornography and distributing child pornography through the Internet.”
He appeared in court in Grand Forks on June 4 and was sentenced to a year in jail.
The ICE team found out the initial information, before police in Grand Forks also became involved in the investigation.
“RCMP here (in Grand Forks) investigated for four days before we came up with all the information we needed to get a search warrant,” said Harrison. “Upon exercising the search warrant, we found evidence that we required and the evidence we knew was there. He was charged with those offences and sentenced the next day.”
Harrison noted that there was another case around a year ago that occurred across the border near Cascade, although he said the two cases were not related.
“An American citizen was found in possession of a huge collection of CDs and DVDs of child pornography,” he added.
“He was arrested and subsequently charged and imprisoned. This is something that our Integrated Child Exploitation team surfaces through investigations and bring to the local detachment.”