A Weatherly man has been charged with child pornography.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by trooper Nikos Bilianis of the Pennsylvania State Police, Computer Crime Unit, in the case against Nicholas Hadzick:

At 9 p.m. July 19, Synchronoss Technologies Inc. made a report to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that they became aware of seven photographs being uploaded to their server depicting child pornography by a user, Hadzick, 41.

The cyber tip number indicated that the seven photographs were then uploaded to the Synchronoss Technologies Inc. servers by a cellphone number.

West Hazleton Borough Police Department filed a subpoena to the telephone number’s provider, Verizon, which utilizes cloud storage through Synchronoss Technologies Inc.

Synchronoss Technologies Inc. provided an Internet Protocol address, which matched the cloud storage account associated with the telephone number for the CyberTip Bilianis received.

At 9 a.m. Sept. 17, Bilianis conducted surveillance of the apartment in the 200 block of Carbon Street, where Hadzick was sitting outside on his steps in front of his apartment on his cellphone.

Later that day, Bilianis obtained a Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General subpoena for subscriber information on the IP address for Atlantic Broadband Inc., which responded that the account subscriber was Hadzick.

At 6:05 a.m. Oct. 8, a search warrant was served on the residence. Bilianis interviewed Hadzick, who admitted to ownership of devices recovered on scene and acknowledged that was his cellphone that matched what was in the CyberTip and Synchronoss Technologies Inc. account.

The devices contained child pornography.

Inside Hadzick’s room was drug paraphernalia, including glassine wax paper baggies containing unknown substances.

Hadzick faces charges of sexual abuse of children, and controlled substance, drug, device, and cosmetic act, prohibited acts, penalties.

He is currently free in lieu of $20,000 unsecured bail, and scheduled to have a preliminary hearing Dec. 16 before District Judge Joseph D. Homanko Sr. of Weatherly.