A 40-year-old Vancouver man accused of possessing dozens of images of child pornography on his cellphone made a first appearance Wednesday in Clark County Superior Court.
Aaron M. Harrier appeared on suspicion of 10 counts of possessing depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, court records show.
On Dec. 31, the cloud storage service for Verizon Wireless submitted a cyber tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding at least six suspected images of child pornography that had been uploaded to its server. The phone number associated with the account was later traced to Harrier, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in Superior Court. The images were sent to the Vancouver Police Department to be investigated.
The cloud storage service in March provided police with a thumb drive of the phone’s contents, which included hundreds of images, video and audio files of adult pornography and about 80 suspected images of child pornography, the affidavit said.
