Washburn Man Accused of Downloading Child Pornography

A Washburn man faces charges for allegedly downloading sexually explicit images of minors to his computer.

In November 2015, law enforcement became aware of sexually explicit images of minors being downloaded to a computer in Washburn, according to a press release Thursday from Sgt. Joshua Haines. The Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit and Homeland Security Investigations in Houlton worked to identify and interview the person believed to be responsible, Haines said.

On Tuesday, State Police arrested 21-year-old Daniel Roy of Washburn and charged him with Possession of Sexually Explicit Material.

Roy was able to post bail and one condition of his release is to have no unsupervised contact with minors under the age of 16.

He is scheduled to appear in court in Caribou on May 5.