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Winnipeg man, 56, busted for child porn

Joe Scarpelli / Global News

A Winnipeg man turned himself in to police Monday after an April 8 raid uncovered a stash of child porn that had been uploaded to a social media site.

The police Internet Child Exploitation Unit, along with the Tactical Support Team, raided an apartment suite in the 600 block of Panet Road after a tip from the National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre.

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Police said an Internet provider informed the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the U.S., who passed that information on to their Canadian counterpart.

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Several electronic devices – which were found to contain numerous images of child sexual abuse – were seized.

Wade Arthur Herbert, 56, is in custody facing charges of possessing child pornography.

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