Two Carbon County men are among 16 people charged in a child predator sweep conducted this week by the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General.

Christopher James Devosa, 46, of Albrightsville, is charged with five counts of distribution of child pornography, 50 counts of possession of child pornography and one count of criminal use of a communication facility.He was arraigned before District Judge Joseph Homanko of Weatherly, and released on $150,000 bail.According to an affidavit of probable cause, Monroe County Detective Brian Webbe on Nov. 1, 2014 was conducting an undercover investigation to find computers on the Gnutella 2 network that were sharing child pornography.He found one sharing 29 files. He established a direct connection to it and downloaded a file. Webbe and Special Agent Kate Linehan of the Pennsylvania Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force described the image on the file as a girl between 6 and 10 years old being sexually assaulted.The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children confirmed it was familiar with that file.On Nov. 2, Webbe again located the suspect computer sharing 21 files. He again established a direct connection and downloaded a file. That one showed a girl between 6 and 8 years old in a sexual situation with an adult male.Another file, downloaded from the suspect computer on Nov. 6, showed a girl between 12 and 14 years old, engaged in bestiality. On Nov. 10, another downloaded file showed a girl between 5 and 7 years old, posing nude.On Dec. 9, Special Agent Justin Leri of the Attorney General's office took pictures of a house at 100 Shawnee Trail, Albrightsville.On Monday, an analyst from the Office of the Attorney General found DeVosa at that address on a JNET (law enforcement network) search.Later that day, agents from the Attorney General's office, state police, and Monroe County detectives went to the house with a search warrant. DeVosa was there, with a woman.They read DeVosa his Miranda rights and deVosa admitted to having done computer searches for "preteen soft core."He said girls were naked in the images and videos.DeVosa told police he "told himself to stop viewing child pornography in the past."He said he would view it and delete it."I have a lot of issues. That's just one of them," he told police.He said he's been viewing child pornography since 2000, and some of the children were as young as 4. He said he did not share the images. Police found 120 images of child pornography on his computer.Grant G. Harris, 36, of Lake Harmony, is charged with three counts of distribution of child pornography, 25 counts of possession of child pornography and one count of criminal use of a communication facility.He was arraigned before Homanko, and jailed under $250,000 cash bail.According to an affidavit of probable cause, Supervisory Special Agent Daniel Block of the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General on Oct. 11 obtained a list of files being shared on a certain computer. The files depicted mother-son incest and involved an 11-year-old boy.Another file depicted a girl of about 9 or 10 in a sexual situation.He obtained records from the Internet provider, GMP Cable TV for a period between Oct. 11-12. The records verified the computer was owned by a person at 358 Laurel Woods Drive, Lake Harmony.On Monday, Block, other agents and Kidder Township police went to the address with a search warrant.Harris was there, along with his mother. He was read his Miranda rights, and agreed to talk with police.But as soon as he signed the Miranda form, he said he did not want to talk with Block. A search of Harris' computer found 30 images of child pornography. Six were seized as evidence.Also charged this week were:Luzerne County: Anthony Bielut: one count of distribution of child pornography, six counts of possession of child pornography and one count of criminal use of a communication facility; Vince Diaz, Luzerne County, is charged with: one count of distribution of child pornography, one count of possession of child pornography and one count of criminal use of a communication facility.Lackawanna County: Richard Edward Edwards Jr.: one count of distribution of child pornography, five counts of possession of child pornography and one count of criminal use of a communication facility; David J. Kolb: 10 counts of possession of child pornography; Bradley Larson: two counts of possession of child pornography and one count of criminal use of a communication facility; Charles J. Senke: one count of unlawful contact with a minor, one count of criminal attempt to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, one count of criminal use of a communication facility, one count of criminal attempt to commit indecent assault and one count of unlawful contact with a minor; Eric William Shay: one count of unlawful contact with a minor one count of criminal attempt to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, one count of criminal use of a communication facility, one count of criminal attempt to commit indecent assault and one count of unlawful contact with a minor; John Slusser: one count of unlawful contact with a minor, one count of criminal use of a communication facility and one count of dissemination of obscene and other sexual materials to minors; William Miller: six counts of possession of child pornography; Thomas Russell Winters: one count of unlawful contact with a minor, one count of criminal attempt to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, one count of criminal use of a communication facility and one count of criminal attempt to commit indecent assault; Zachary Zbegner: one count of possession of child pornography.Pike County: Richard Adames: one count of distribution of child pornography and one count of criminal use of a communication facility.Susquehanna County: Russell Bohannan: three counts of distribution of child pornography, 50 counts of possession of child pornography and one count of criminal use of a communication facility.Wayne County: Jason Verrastro, Wayne County, is charged with: one count of distribution of child pornography, 20 counts of possession of child pornography and one count of criminal use of a communication facility.