TRENTON, N.J. - A northern New Jersey man has been arrested and charged with six counts of attempted sexual exploitation of children and distribution of child pornography.
Thomas M. Elgert of Hillsdale was arrested Tuesday morning. Federal authorities in Montana say an FBI agent and a police detective there communicated online several times with a Yahoo screen name registered in Elgert's name. They used undercover aliases.
A criminal complaint says Elgert requested and transmitted pictures of children engaged in sexual conduct.
The 66-year-old Elgert was scheduled to appear in federal court in Newark Tuesday afternoon. A call to his home was not answered.
An FBI spokesman says Elgert would be tried in Montana.