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CLEARFIELD, Utah (AP) -- An Ogden man is accused of possessing child pornography on a laptop, more than a year after he abandoned the computer in his former apartment.
The pictures were discovered when a computer technician examined the laptop for an apartment manager, who wanted to sell it at a pawn shop, police said.
"When he got into it, he said, 'Hey, guys, this computer is full of child porn,"' Assistant Police Chief Greg Krusi said.
Jason K. Stewart, 36, was charged this week with five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.
"There was no indication that he was a manufacturer," Krusi said. "Most of the stuff came from Europe."
In 2005, Stewart was in jail for four months in an unrelated case. He did not return to his apartment or have anyone pick up his possessions, Krusi said.
The manager did nothing with the computer until Jan. 16 when he tried to sell it. The pawn shop requested that the laptop's password protection be removed, Krusi said.
Stewart was in the Weber County jail with bail set at $100,000.
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Information from: Standard-Examiner, http://www.standard.net
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