CARLISLE, Pa. — State Police have a charged a Cumberland County man with possession and dissemination of child pornography.
Christopher Harris, 33, of Carlisle, was charged last week following an investigation launched last August by State Police, who were alerted by a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, according to the criminal complaint affidavit.
Harris is an attorney who at one time served on the board of the DreamWrights Center for Community Arts, a York-based non-profit organization that works with children and adults.
DreamWrights director Ann Davis told FOX43 Harris did not participate in any of the organization's operation activities and had no unsupervised contact with minors as part of his role.
Harris is no longer involved with the organization, Davis said.
Harris is also a former assigned solicitor to the Littlestown Area School District as part of his duties with the York-based law firm Stock and Leader.
The school district said in a statement that Harris is no longer employed at Stock and Leader, or by the Littlestown Area School District.
The NCMEC alerted authorities after receiving a Cybertip from Dropbox, which became aware of a video depicting suspected child pornography that had been uploaded to its infrastructure by one of its users.
The video allegedly depicted two juveniles engaging in a sex act, according to police.
State Police traced the email associated with the Dropbox account to an IP address registered to Harris' home address and Comcast subscription information. A search of PennDOT's driver's license registry identified Harris as the person living at the apartment's address, and his vehicle registration matched that of a vehicle parked in front of the building, according to the complaint.
Investigators then obtained and executed a search warrant at Harris' apartment on May 31. Police seized Harris' cell phone and other electronic devices, according to the complaint.
After consulting with an attorney, Harris agreed to an interview with police. He denied using the email associated with the Dropbox account that shared the suspected child pornography and said he had not used Dropbox since 2018, according to the complaint.
A forensic examination of Harris' cell phone found one video depicting suspected child pornography saved to a password-protected folder, police claim.
Police also found the Yahoo email account associated with the suspected Dropbox account, along with evidence that the Dropbox app had been downloaded to the device in August 2023 and April 2024, the complaint states.
Police also found a candid photo of a group of what appeared to be high school-aged students speaking to one another outside, according to the complaint. The photo had been edited to zoom in on the groin area of one of the male students. None of the students appeared to be aware that the photo was being taken, police said.
Harris is charged with one count of possessing child pornography, one count of disseminating photo/film of child sex acts and one count of criminal use of a communication facility.
Harris was arraigned on June 27, and bail was set at $50,000. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for July 24, according to court records.
