A Vancouver man appeared Thursday in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of possessing dozens of images of child pornography, court records show.
Benjamin F. Lewis, 35, faces three counts of possessing depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
On Aug. 29, 2016, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received information from Google that suspected child pornography was found on its system. The upload came from email accounts and a phone number that was later traced back to Lewis, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Lewis was detained by detectives with the Digital Evidence Cybercrimes Unit following a months-long investigation. He allegedly admitted to uploading images of child pornography and sending them from his cellphone to his desktop computer, the affidavit states.