A Dartmouth resident was arrested on Thursday, April 28, on charges of child pornography offenses, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Jack L. Bean, Jr., 29, was charged in U.S. District Court in Boston in with one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.

A statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office indicated that Bean admitted that he downloaded and saved child pornography from the Internet.

During the execution of a search warrant, agents identified 40 images and 29 videos of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct on Bean’s laptop, officials said.

Child pornography charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and no greater than 20 years in prison, a mandatory minimum of five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release, and a fine of $250,000, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. The possession of child pornography charge carries a sentence of no greater than 20 years in prison, a mandatory minimum of five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release, and a fine of $250,000, the office said.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Suzanne Sullivan Jacobus of U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz’s Major Crimes Unit.