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Former Delaware County Sheriff Candidate Faces Child Porn Charges
By: Associated Press
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DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) – Authorities say a former central Ohio deputy who twice ran for sheriff has been charged with having child pornography on his computer.
Federal prosecutors say 50-year-old Mark Wolfe of Sunbury, north of Columbus, was arrested Monday. He was a Delaware County deputy for three years in the 1990s and was interim county sheriff for a week in 2007, but hasn’t worked there since then. He ran unsuccessfully for county sheriff there in 2000 and 2004.
Prosecutors say a shared file containing child pornography was traced to his IP address, and a search on July 31 turned up 486 videos and 203 images of child pornography.
Wolfe also had been the police chief of the village of Edison in Morrow County. His attorney said he will fight the charges.