Number 100. I was hoping for something more spectacular, or at least less distasteful, for such a milestone event. But you take what you get.
The mayor of College Park, Maryland, Patrick L. Wojahn, resigned Wednesday night.
He was arrested Thursday morning.
The charges against him are “40 counts of possession of child exploitative material, a misdemeanor, and 16 counts of distribution of child exploitative material, a felony, according to the Prince George’s County Police Department.”
Specifically:
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had notified the county police on Feb. 17 that a social media account operating in the county possessed and distributed what were suspected to be images of child sexual abuse, the police said.
Court records indicate that the account was on the social media app Kik.
Prince George’s County Police investigators determined that videos and an image had been uploaded to the account in January, and that the account belonged to Mr. Wojahn, the police said.
On Tuesday, detectives served a search warrant at Mr. Wojahn’s home, where they seized cellphones, a storage device, a tablet and a computer, the police said.
A small bonus: I can’t say for sure that Mr. Wojahn is a card-carrying, dues-paying member, of Criminal Mayors Against Law-Abiding Gun Owners, but: he did sign this “Bipartisan Mayors Call for Background Checks” letter, along with 99 other mayors (including the late unlamented Lori Lightfoot and Lovely Warren), so I feel like calling him a member is a safe bet.