Patrick Wojahn was elected mayor of College Park, Maryland, in 2015.
BALTIMORE — The mayor of a Maryland college town was arrested Thursday morning on dozens of child pornography counts hours after he resigned from office.
County officials said the department started investigating after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children notified them on Feb. 17 that a social media account had distributed suspected child pornography. Detectives traced the account to Wojahn, authorities said.Wojahn submitted his resignation after business hours on Wednesday, city officials said in a statement Thursday.
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