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JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) – A Jacksonville sex offender is facing more than a dozen child porn charges.
Jacksonville police arrested 45-year-old Nicholas Brackett on Wednesday.
Warrants say the man had visual material and photographs showing children engaged in sexual activity.
He was charged with 16 counts of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor.
Brackett was also charged with having sexually explicit content involving children in 2025. That case is still pending, according to online records.
He was arrested in April on drug charges and for failing to report a new address as a sex offender.
Brackett was added to the North Carolina sex offender registry after he was convicted in 2025 of five counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor.
He is in the Onslow County Jail without bond.
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