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Falmouth Man Arrested on Child Porn Charges

FALMOUTH, Maine -- A sixty-three-year-old attorney was arrested at his home in Falmouth this morning by the State Police Computer Crimes Unit and charged with possessing child pornography.

Maine Public Safety Department spokesman Steve McCausland says Lawrence Winger's computer was seized earlier this month after authorities got a tip. "His computer was reviewed by the unit in the last couple of weeks and dozens of images of child porn was found on it," McCausland says.

Authorities don't believe any of the images are of children from Maine.

A person answering a phone call made to Winger had no comment.

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.