Child Porn Arrest

A 31-year old Greenville man, a third party employee of Columbia Advisory Group contracted to Texas A&M University-Commerce rather than a direct employee of the university, was arrested at 1 p.m. Thursday for on-line solicitation of a minor and for three counts of possessing child pornography.  Michael Henry Shahan was charged before JP B.J. Teer who set bond at $100,000 for on-line solicitation of a minor and $20,000 for each of the three counts of possession of child pornography.  The Commerce Police Department and the Texas A&M-Commerce Police department assisted the Hopkins County Sheriff’s Department with the arrest.  It is alledged that the man thought he was talking to a juvenile to set up a sexual liaison when he was really talking with a Sheriff’s deputy.  The man’s phone, which was seized, reportedly contained images of child porn.