Child-porn arrests made in capital region
New Brunswick RCMP says men from Fredericton, Oromocto and Moncton have pending court dates officers with internet child exploitation unit participated in national operation
Officers with New Brunswick’s internet child exploitation (ICE) unit arrested four men - including three in the capital region - last month as part of a national operation dubbed Project Steel, the RCMP reports.
The New Brunswick RCMP issued a news release Wednesday, announcing its ICE unit worked as part of a national online child sexual exploitation operation called Project Steel recently, and it led to arrests in this province.
“In total, four search warrants were executed in the province in connection with Project Steel, including two in Fredericton, one in Moncton, and one in Oromocto,” the release said.
Two Fredericton men, aged 37 and 35; a 35-year-old Oromocto man and a 44-year-old Moncton man were arrested and released on conditions, all with pending court dates, it said.
“A total of 26 digital devices were seized to further the investigations,” the RCMP said.
The specific dates of those arrests weren’t detailed in the release, but it noted most of the Project Steel warrants were executed between Feb. 18 and 27.
Project Steel saw the New Brunswick ICE unit working in collaboration with the Codiac Regional RCMP and municipal police forces in Fredericton, Edmundston, the Kennebecasis Valley, Saint John and Woodstock, the release said.
The national operation was one undertaken by the RCMP's National Child Exploitation Crime Centre, the Ontario Provincial Police and the Sûreté du Québec, it said, with the assistance of municipal policing agencies and other law-enforcement partners Canada-wide.
The digital forensics services unit with the New Brunswick RCMP is also assisting with the ongoing investigations in this province, it said.
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