COLUMBUS – Authorities have arrested a 53-year-old Pleasant Township man on child pornography-related charges.
The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force executed a search warrant on Monday at the home of Richard Woolf, 192 Oxley Road, who was suspected of pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor, pandering obscenity involving a minor, illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented Material and disseminating matter harmful to juveniles at his home, according to a statement posted on the Franklin County Sheriff’s Offidce Facebook page.
Woolf was arrested for pandering obscenity involving minors, a second-degree felony, and taken to the Franklin County Corrections Center II, authorities said.
The investigation is ongoing and the sheriff’s office says Woolf is facing additional charges related to production, possession and distribution of child sexual abuse materials that will be included in a future indictment.