A 48-year-old Windsor man is facing 86 child pornography charges after an investigation by Windsor police.

“I believe the Internet Child Exploitation Unit -- this is the largest number of charges they have laid to date," says Windsor police Sgt. Matt D'Asti.

Police started the child porn investigation in May of 2013.  On June 4, 2014 members of the Internet Child Exploitation Unit arrested a 48-year-old suspect. 

Officers executed a search warrant on June 5, 2014 at a residence in the 2800 block of Turner Road.  Police seized evidence and arrested the suspect. He was charged with one count of possession of child pornography and one count of accessing child pornography.

The investigation continued, which included examining photos, videos and chat messaging data. Between July and August 2014 an additional 21 charges were laid against the suspect.

In August 2014, Windsor police identified a 14-year-old victim, who lives in Dallas Texas. The ICE unit notified authorities in Dallas and the victim was located and interviewed by police.

On April 22, 2015 an additional 63 charges were laid, bringing the total number of charges to 86.

Investigators have determined that there are an additional 22 victims, 16 of which are under the age of 18 (10-16 years of age). 

Twenty-one of the victims are female and one is male. 

Police are satisfied that the victims are located internationally and not from this area.  Police are continuing with the investigation and are attempting to identify the victims.

The suspect has remained in custody since the time of his arrest in June of 2014.

 Daniel Nickolson, 48, faces the following charges:

 -20 counts of extortion

-25 counts of luring

-15 counts of breaching an order of prohibition

-7 counts of distribute child pornography       

-4 counts of making sexually explicit material available to a child

-4 counts of access child pornography

-3 counts of possession of child pornography

-3 counts of invitation to sexual touching

-2 counts of agreement or arrangement for sexual offence against child

-2 counts of uttering threats

-1 count of making child pornography

Officers would like to remind parents to monitor online activity of their children and encourage the reporting of inappropriate online communication.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Windsor Police at 519-255-6700 ext. 4893, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 519-258-8477 (TIPS), online at www.catchcrooks.com, or Submit a Tip on Facebook.