A State Department employee has been arrested by Fairfax County Police on 10 counts of possession of child pornography.

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The employee, Carl Carey, 54, was arrested at his Lorton, Va., home on Usher Drive.

He declined to comment to ABC7.

According to his LinkedIn page, Carey is a graduate of New York University and has a master's degree in public administration from Troy University.

His profile said he started working for the State Department in 2003 and worked his way up to a senior position of project manager in the IT department.

Police in Fairfax alerted the State Department after issuing a search warrant on Carey's home in 2010. The State Department said Carey was suspended without pay shortly after, though he wasn't arrested until a year and a half later, on March 13, 2012.

Officials cannot confirm if any of the alleged illegal activity was taking place on federal government property.

Carey, who has a state department security clearance, is the second State Department employee facing arrest recently. Diplomatic security officer James Cafferty pleaded guilty in January to transporting child porn.

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