Seven men have been arrested and charged in Alberta after investigators uncovered vast collections of child pornography.

The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit made the arrests between June and August in Calgary, Lethbridge and Red Deer.

ALERT said the unit launched Operation ICE Storm in June and focused on high-level targets that were sharing and distributing vast collections of child sexual exploitation materials via peer-to-peer file sharing networks.

The operation prioritized suspects with the largest collections and some of the most graphic child sexual abuse content, ALERT said.

More than 40 computers and electronic devices were seized, which ALERT said resulted in forensic investigators discovering more than 405,000 images and 11,0

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