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William Hardt, 54, of Secaucus “used one or more electronic devices to view approximately 65 digital files depicting nude or sexually explicit pubescent children,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Friday.
Hardt, who works in Hudson County, was arrested in Rutherford after detectives found the files during a warranted search at his Secaucus home, Calo said.
Hardt was charged with possession of child pornography, sent to the Bergen County Jail and ordered released by a judge hours later pending a Dec. 26 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack.
Calo thanked Rutherford and Secaucus police for their work on the case, as well as the Lyndhurst Police Department, which participates in prosecutor’s Cyber Crimes Task Force.
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