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Lansford man arraigned on child porn charges

State police have arrested a Lansford man for downloading child pornography, after the company he hired to store files online reported his activity to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Gary W. Bowman, 54, was arraigned on child pornography charges on Tuesday. Police say he admitted to downloading child pornography and storing it on a "cloud" account on his cellphone.The images apparently raised red flags at the company who maintained that account, Synchronoss Technologies Inc. of Bethlehem. They reported the pornography to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on two occasions during the month of July.NCMEC subsequently turned that information over to the state police's computer crime unit.State police confirmed that an account belonging to Bowman contained pornographic images featuring children under the age of 18. According to police, the images included images of young, nude girls posing seductively and engaging in sexual acts.Based on that tip, police about a month later obtained a search warrant for Bowman's home in Lansford. He admitted to downloading the images and uploading them to his phone's cloud account. Police also searched other devices owned by Bowman, including a tablet and a cellphone. They were found to contain pornographic images, including some of the images that were found uploaded onto Bowman's cloud account.Bowman is out on $50,000 unsecured bail.