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Alberta man pleads guilty to child pornography and weapons charges

File: The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) logo at its head office. Sarah Kraus, Global News

A Medicine Hat man has pleaded guilty to half of the charges he was facing in connection with a child pornography investigation this summer.

Tyler Falkeisen, 33, was arrested as part of an investigation by the ALERT Internet Child Exploitation unit in mid-July.

Investigators said their probe began in April on the referral of the United States National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

READ MORE: Man facing child pornography, firearm charges after Medicine Hat raid

They searched a home to find numerous electronic devices that were they said were storing nearly 3,000 images of known child pornography.

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According to Alberta Justice, Falkeisen pleaded guilty to two child pornography-related offenses in court on Wednesday, as well as one count of unauthorized possession of a firearm in connection with a 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun being found in the basement during the ALERT raid.

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He did not enter a plea in the three other charges he faces.

His case was adjourned until March 7, 2018.

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