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A Blair man was charged Thursday with felony possession of child pornography after complaining to police that a man claiming to be a U.S. marshal was harassing him about nude photos of a girl that the man had received on his phone.

According to an arrest affidavit filed by a Blair detective, the man and his fiancée came to the Blair police headquarters about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday to report that the man had received nude photos from “a 16-year-old girl in South Carolina” after he had corresponded with her on a cellphone app. The man said someone who claimed to be the girl’s father and a U.S. marshal then called to threaten him.

The man handed the detective his phone and showed him the pictures of the girl.

The detective read the man his Miranda rights and was given permission to look through the photo gallery on the man’s phone. The detective found a total of 14 nude photos of two females, both of whom were under 18 years old. He also found a photo of the man’s penis that the man had sent to one of the females and an email asking the girl to come to Blair for sex while her mother was at work, the affidavit said.