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B.C. Man Rylan Sandberg, 46, Admits To Possession Of Child Porn In Canada-Wide Bust

The Canadian Press, 06 Aug, 2015 01:00 PM

VERNON, B.C. — A Vernon, B.C., man will be sentenced in October after his arrest in a Canada-wide child pornography investigation.

Forty-six-year-old Rylan Sandberg pleaded guilty to possession of child porn in May.

He and another unidentified 49-year-old man also from Vernon, along with a 29-year-old Kelowna man, were among 150 Canadians arrested after an investigation began in February 2014.

Police seized over a million images, some of infants, along with video depicting sexual abuse of children.

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