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Lincoln Firefighter Facing Child Pornography Charges

A Lincoln firefighter has been arrested for possession of child pornography.

Fifty-two-year-old Daniel King was booked into jail on Tuesday.

According to the probable cause affidavit, on November 26th Lincoln Police Sgt. Donahue was investigating computers that were sharing files depicting sexually explicit conduct involving children under the age of 18 over the Internet.

Sgt. Donahue identified an IP address as possibly having files for sharing child porn. On December 12th, a file was downloaded depicting explicit sexual activity between an adult male and a child.

Police served a search warrant on Tuesday at King's house. King, a driver for the Lincoln Fire Department, admitted to police that he had been using file sharing programs. King's computer was identified as the computer used in the file sharing transaction on December 12th.

According to court documents, police found other files consistent with file sharing and child pornography was located on the computer and external drive.

King is expected in court February 7th.


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