Sheriff’s officials report that they took a 43-year-old man from Fallbrook into custody on Thursday after he was charged with possession of child pornography and making threats against his alienated wife.

Todd David Norton was taken into custody at a rented home he was living in located on De Luz Road near Sandia Creek Drive. He is being detained in jail with a bail set at $50,000.

The investigation started when Norton’s wife informed officials that she had left her husband and started a divorce process after she saw him looking at child pornography on his home computer, stated sheriff’s Detective Dan Laibach.

The woman reported to officials that Norton had been calling her and leaving threatening and harassing voice messages and that he had said he would “shoot up the house” if she left with and raised their 4-year-old son.

Police carried out a thorough search of Norton’s home, and discovered downloaded videos and pictures from sites known to contain child pornography, including movies and photos of children in sexual events. The computer was taken by officials and will be looked at in more detail, Laibach stated.

A man from San Diego who confessed that he had over 600 pictures of child pornography was sentenced Monday in federal court to serve 80 months in jail.

Duc Minh Bui, 34, must register as a sex offender and received seven years of probation after he serves his jail sentence, federal officials reported. He was also fined and must pay one of the children whose pictures he took, officials stated. This is the first instance in which a defendant has been forced to pay in recompense when they were not making child pornography.

Bui confessed that he had gotten pictures of young children engaging in sexual activities around June 11, 2008. He pleaded guilty on Sept. 22, 2009, to one count of getting pictures of minors engaged in sexual acts.