A 37-year-old Elma man was arrested Wednesday for charges related to possession of child pornography, according to a statement from Elma Police Chief Susan Shultz.

The national Internet Crimes Against Children task force program had intercepted images the Elma man had obtained through a well-known source of child pornography, said Shultz. The man was identified by his email and IP address and that information was forwarded to Elma Police.

At about 5 p.m. Wednesday, Elma Police, with the assistance of a Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Department detective, served a search warrant on a residence in the 600 block of North 12th Street. The officers collected and secured evidence from the scene, said Shultz.

The suspect was taken into custody and booked into the Grays Harbor County Jail for possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually-explicit conduct.