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A 25-year-old man was arrested on March 27 for possession of child pornography while living in Sacramento State’s residence halls, said Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Bob Lozito in a news release.

Multiple law enforcement agencies ?” including the FBI, Sacramento State’s University Police Department, and the Sacramento Sheriff’s Department ?” worked together to arrest Siquerio Mateo Olander Rios at about 6:45 a.m.

Rios was scheduled to appear before US Magistrate Kimberly Mueller on March 29 in the Eastern District of California of the United States District Court.

As of Tuesday morning, court officials could not give an update regarding the case.

Rios was a student at Sacramento State who lived in the residence halls in May 2005 when it was reported to police that he was using his computer to look at child pornography, police said.

Rios now lives in an apartment at Fair Oaks Boulevard and Howe Avenue, where he was arrested, Lozito said.

“Several months ago our officers executed a search warrant and seized his computer,” said Sgt. Kelly Clark of the campus police.

After the computer was seized, the Sacramento Valley High-Tech Crimes Task Force reviewed the contents of the hard drive. It takes several months to do an exam on a computer, Clark said.

When police found pornographic images of children ?” including bondage and torture images ?” samples were sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Child Victim Identification Program, which found that hundreds of images from Rios’ computer showed children from at least 37 known child pornography series, Lozito said.

If convicted, Rios could face up to 20 years in prison, Lozito said.

Anyone with additional information is asked to contact police at 874-3002.

Brandon Darnell can be reached at [email protected]