Crime & Safety

Gloucester Township Man Arrested On Child Pornography Charges: Prosecutor

BREAKING: Jonathan Conover was arrested following a raid of his home.

Gloucester Township, NJ -- A Gloucester Township man has been arrested and charged with distribution and possession of child pornography, authorities said Tuesday afternoon.

Jonathan Conover, 33, is charged with second-degree distribution and third-degree possession of child pornography, and is facing additional charges by the Gloucester Township Police Department for possession of Controlled Dangerous Substances (CDS).

Conover was arrested at about 5:30 a.m. Friday morning, Sept. 23, after the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office High Tech Crimes Unit executed a search warrant at his home on the 600 block of the Black Horse Pike in the Glendora section of the township.

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Investigators recovered numerous digital media devices and various types of CDS during a search of the home, according to Camden County Prosecutor Mary Eva Colalillo and Gloucester Township Police Chief Harry Earle.

An onsite forensic preview of the devices confirmed that there was child pornography on the devices, police said.

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Conover was remanded to the Camden County Jail on $100,000 full-cash bail.

The Gloucester Township Police Department, Homeland Security, and the Gloucester Township SRT assisted in the arrest.

The attached image of Jonathan Conover was provided by the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office.

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