A 69-year-old Hull man was arrested Tuesday at Logan Airport and charged with possession and distribution of child pornography, as well as photographing a person in the nude. Hull Police Chief John Dunn said that Hull officers arrested James T. Tucker of 10 Driftway after a computer, several hard drives, portable storage devices, a camera and memory cards were seized during a search of his home last week. These devices contained what was described in a police report as 17 “sexually explicit videos involving children in the nude.”

Tucker, who works in the maintenance department of Milton Residences for the Elderly, was not home when police and the U.S. Secret Service New England Cyber Fraud Task Force raided his house on May 7 as part of an ongoing investigation.

When police called him, he told officers he was in Florida. Officer Leanne Marshalsea and Sgt. Andrew Reilly told Tucker they were investigating child pornography and asked Tucker if anyone else had access to his computer. According to the officers’ report, he said yes, but “it’s all on me.” He also said he would be flying home on Tuesday, May 14.

When his plane from Tampa landed in Boston, police were waiting for him.

On Tuesday, Hull Police, State Police, Secret Service officers, and members of the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Warrant Apprehension Unit traveled to Logan Airport to meet Tucker’s plane. At about 5:40 p.m., Tucker was “taken into custody without incident and his cell phone was seized as evidence.”

He was booked at the Hull Police Station and held on $25,040 bail pending his arraignment on Wednesday in Hingham District Court.

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