South Jersey police officer arrested for child sexual abuse material

ATLANTIC COUNTY, N.J. - A local officer has been named a suspect in child sexual abuse case for possessing more than 75 materials, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor's office.

Christopher Ortiz, 38, is charged with endangering the welfare of a child. He is a police officer with the Vineland Police Department.

Officials say he was found with 76 files of minors engaged in sexually acts uploaded to his Verizon Cloud account.

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The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office’s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit began the investigation after a tip was submitted by Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. 

Ortiz was arrest without incident. The current status of his job with the police department is not known.