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Child porn charges filed after encrypted 6-year-old computer files cracked

A former UW-Madison student who is serving an eight-year federal prison sentence for jamming Madison police radios in 2003 could face child pornography charges after police on Wednesday finally cracked open encrypted files found on his computerâ??s hard drive.

Rajib K. Mitra, 31, who was convicted of interfering with emergency communications on Halloween weekend in 2003, allegedly stored child pornography on his computer, according to a search warrant filed Thursday in Dane County Circuit Court.