Former UConn player from Chicago arrested on child porn charges

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STORRS, Conn. — State police say additional charges have been lodged against a former University of Connecticut football player accused of possessing child pornography on his dorm room computer.

Police say 19-year-old Gregory McKee of Chicago was arraigned Friday on charges of possessing child pornography, larceny and computer crime. Online court records did not indicate if he entered a plea.

McKee has pleaded not guilty to charges of obscenity, importing child pornography and promoting a minor in an obscene performance stemming from a separate arrest in December 2010.

Police say the new charges came after they discovered 96 child pornography pictures and 26 videos on his computer during their investigation after the first arrest.

UConn officials have declined to comment, and McKee and his public defender could not immediately be reached Sunday.