LEWISTON – A Webster Street man was back behind bars Thursday charged with attempting to destroy evidence that he photographed young children in lewd poses.
Raymond Samson, 53, was arrested Thursday morning on charges of violating bail conditions and falsifying physical evidence.
Samson was arrested at his 299 Webster St. home at about 9:30 a.m. after police with warrants searched his home and an area outside his house.
For about an hour, at least a half-dozen officers searched the property near the intersection of Farwell Street. Some of the officers used shovels to dig into Samson’s yard, although investigators were not saying what, specifically, they were looking for.
“We do believe there was evidence secreted in his backyard,” said Lewiston police Lt. Thomas Avery.
In April, Samson was arrested on a charge of sexual exploitation of minors after police went to his home and seized three computers, several videotapes and printed photographs. Investigators said Samson photographed at least two children – a boy and a girl – in sexual poses and kept the pictures at his home.
The case was investigated by the Maine Computer Crimes Task Force, which sent a detective to Samson’s home about 8 a.m. Thursday.
When he was arrested in April, Samson was released on $10,000 bail. On Thursday, he was being held without bail at the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn.
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