Arundel man arrested on charges of child pornography

Anne Arundel County Police arrested a Severn man Thursday after charging him with three counts of child pornography possession and with violating requirements of the Maryland sex offender registry. Nicholas Benjamin Hittle, 39, was registered as a Tier 2 sex offender and had failed to disclose information to the registry, police said. In January, Anne Arundel County police began investigating a report that someone was using an account that was associated with uploading child pornographic images to an internet site, police said. Over the following several months, detectives served several subpoenas and search warrants to identify the person using the account, police said. On April 5, detectives searched an address in the 8000 block of Wayne Road, where Hittle was, and interviewed him, police said. During the interview, the suspect made admissions he had received specific images of child pornogra