{"id":12415,"date":"2026-04-14T16:49:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/?p=12415"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:49:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:49:38","slug":"23-year-old-facing-serious-charges-after-search-of-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/23-year-old-facing-serious-charges-after-search-of-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"23 Year Old Facing Serious Charges After Search of Residence."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police charge man for child sexual abuse offenses<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police have charged a man for several child sexual abuse offences following a search of his residence this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January, investigators in the Integrated Internet Child Exploitation Unit received information that a man residing in Halifax may be accessing child sexual abuse material online. Investigators received authorization to search his residence on Tower Road this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owen Watson, 23, was arrested and appeared in Halifax provincial court today to face charges of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>possession of child sexual abuse and exploitation material<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>accessing child sexual abuse and exploitation material<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>distribution of child sexual abuse and exploitation material<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>making sexually explicit material available to a child<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with information on child sexual abuse and exploitation is asked to file a report by calling police at 902-490-5020 or by using Cybertip, Canada&#8217;s National Tip Line for reporting online sexual exploitation of children, at www.cybertip.ca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: HRP Release <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police charge man for child sexual abuse offenses Police have charged a man for several child sexual abuse offences following<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-general","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12416,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12415\/revisions\/12416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}