A spokesman for the clerk’s office of the U.S. District Court in Des Moines said Thursday a federal child pornography trial against former ISU assistant men’s basketball coach Randy Brown has been canceled.

The trial was scheduled to begin Monday.

Brown’s attorney, Timothy McCarthy of Des Moines, was not immediately available for comment Thursday.

Al Overbaugh, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Des Moines, said he was unable to comment about whether the cancellation was due to a possible plea agreement.

The charges against Brown were one count of receipt and one count of possession of images containing minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children originally contacted ISU Police after discovering an individual on the ISU network was having online conversations and soliciting sex from whom he believed to be a 15-year-old girl.

A search of Brown’s home and his Hilton Coliseum office by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and ISU Police on Jan. 24 resulted in the discovery of computer disks containing images of minors engaging in sexual acts. Brown surrendered two computers at his home.

Brown was originally charged with obstruction of justice after he destroyed about 30 other computer disks at his office containing nude images of minors, after the U.S. Postal Inspector told him not to do so. The obstruction charge was later dropped.

Brown was indicted by a federal grand jury March 11.

He pleaded not guilty to the charges on March 24 at the U.S. District Court in Des Moines.

Brown resigned from his position as assistant coach on March 3 after charges were filed against him. He had taken a leave of absence from the team in late January.