By David Zapata –

On Thursday, December 5th, 2019 detectives assigned to the Worcester Police Cyber Crime Unit, the Massachusetts State Police and the FBI executed a search warrant at 545 Salisbury Street. Apt. 313.

The occupant of the residence and subject of the search warrant was Richard Smith.

Smith at the time of the execution of the search warrant was in possession of a Samsung Galaxy J7 Crown which had files on it identified as child pornography. After locating the child pornography on the phone, Smith was arrested and charged with one count of possession of child pornography.

While Smith has been arrested, this investigation is on-going.