Owner of Security Firm Charged With Possession of Child Porn

The owner of a Livingston security company was arrested on Thursday night for possessing child pornography, according to a press release from Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray.

Theodore Melhorn, who owns S.A.A.F.E Alarm, a security alarm company, inadvertently left a notebook at a customer’s home containing pornographic photographs of young males between the ages of 12 to 14, according to the prosecutor’s release.

Officers later obtained a search warrant for Melhorn’s Livingston home. Members of the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Cyber Crimes Unit, along with officers from the Caldwell and Livingston Police Departments, executed a search warrant at Melhorn’s home Thursday night and “discovered numerous pornographic photograph images of prepubescent children,” according to the release from the acting county prosecutor.

Melhorn, 63, was placed under arrest and transported to the Caldwell Police Department where he was processed and released.

Acting Prosecutor Murray commended Officer Candice Marinaro and Det. Sgt. Anthony Marta of the Caldwell Police Department and Livingston Police Det. Collins for their work in the investigation.

These are accusations, Murray said in a press release on the arrest. All defendants are presumed innocent unless and until they plead guilty or are found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.