City police have charged a local man for possession of child pornography after seizing computers, hard drives and nearly 10,000 DVDs.
In a news release issued Friday afternoon, officials with the Thunder Bay Police Service confirmed that they had arrested a Thunder Bay man on Thursday after searching his North Harold Street home.
Police were looking for child pornography images. Det. Const. Chris Bunnill said the investigation started in May of 2012 through a peer-to-peer file sharing network. Due to the amount of material seized police won't know the extent of it until the investigation wraps up.
"It will be many months before we can put that all together," he said.
Investigators managed to flag 244 suspected child pronography files.
In late October 2013, three videos were obtained and confirmed to be child pornogrpahy. That led police to their search of the North Harold Street home.
Police say they seized 15 computers, six hard drives and as many as 10,000 DVDs. The examination process of the seized items is expected to take months.
Dan Nawrocki, 38, of Thunder Bay faces charges of possession of child pornography and making child pornography available.
He made a court appearance Friday morning and has been remanded to the Thunder Bay District Jail with a court date of Nov. 18.
Police say this incident is not connected to the current international child pornography investigation.
A Confederation College spokeswoman conrfirmed Nawrocki was a non-full-time instructor at the school who has since been terminated following his arrest. The spokeswoman added the school would not be making any further comment on the case.
None of the allegations against the accused have been proven in court.
