A Summit Township man found with more than 300 images and nearly two dozen videos of child pornography is headed for trial.

James R. Schmidt, 30, waived his right to a preliminary hearing Monday at the office of District Judge William Fullerton in Butler, sending all 101 charges against him to Butler County Court.

He remains free on nonmonetary bail with the conditions that he be placed on pretrial supervision and have no unsupervised contact with children.

A trooper with the Northwest Computer Crime Task Force launched the investigation last year after police received a Cyber Tipline report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

The tip claimed that someone had uploaded child pornography onto Google Drive. Police traced the Internet subscriber information to a home on Standard Avenue in Butler.

Troopers subsequently obtained a search warrant for the apartment where Schmidt was living at the time. The warrant was served March 28, 2018.

The defendant was not home, according to charging documents. Police seized two laptop computers and a thumb drive.

Schmidt later agreed to talk to investigators without an attorney, police said.

During the interview, documents said, he recounted meeting a person on Craigslist, who explained “how to search and find child pornography on the (I)nternet using the dark Web.”

The so-called “dark Web” is a hidden part of the Internet that can only be accessed using special software.

Police said Schmidt admitted that he possessed about 8 gigabytes worth of child porn on the thumb drive that was connected to one of his computers taken during the search.

He identified the software operating system and the anonymous online search program he used, documents said, and provided investigators with his password to access his files.

In a hidden folder, police said, were numerous images and videos of girls between 4 and 15 years old “posing nude or engaged in sexual acts with adult males.

Schmidt is charged with one count each of disseminating child pornography and criminal use of a communication facility, and 99 counts of possessing child porn.

His attorney, public defender Maura Palumbi, declined to comment about the charges Monday.