{"id":854471,"date":"2026-08-11T18:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/854471\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:52:10","slug":"b-c-man-charged-after-discovery-of-14000-child-exploitation-images-videos-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/854471\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. man charged after discovery of 14,000 child exploitation images, videos | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786474330_92_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Surrey Police patch is worn by an officer at RCMP &#8220;E&#8221; Division headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Ethan Cairns<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 11, 2026 | 9:10 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SURREY \u2014 A man has been charged after an investigation by police in Surrey, B.C., found thousands of images and videos related to child sexual exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the probe began in May 2025 after they received reports of a suspect who possessed and accessed child sexual abuse and exploitation material online.<\/p>\n<p>It led to a search warrant being carried out at a Surrey home in August of that year and the discovery of more than 14,000 images and videos in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the evidence has resulted in charges of processing and accessing child sexual exploitation material against 37-year-old Wade Bruce Craig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Surrey Police patch is worn by an officer at RCMP &#8220;E&#8221; Division headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,87674],"class_list":["post-854471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}