**** HRP Media Release
Police charge man with child luring and child pornography offences
Police have charged a man after conducting a search in Halifax in relation to a child luring and pornography investigation.
On June 28, investigators in the Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit of the Integrated Criminal Investigation Division conducted a search on Lynnett Road. Investigators seized electronic devices for forensic analysis.
Joshua Earl Oliver, 40, is scheduled to appear in Halifax Provincial Court at a later date to face charges of:
- Luring a child
- Making sexually explicit material available to a child
- Making child pornography
- Possession of child pornography
- Making arrangement to commit a sexual offence against a child
Anyone with information on child pornography is asked to file a report by calling police at 902-490-5020 or by using Cybertip, Canada’s National Tip Line for reporting online sexual exploitation of children, at www.cybertip.ca.
