Authorities arrested Oran Routh, the son of the man accused of trying to assassinate former President Donald Trump, for child pornography.The charges are:
Investigators say they discovered “hundreds” of files with child pornography during a search of Oran Routh’s residence in Guilford County, North Carolina, on Saturday conducted “in connection with an investigation unrelated to child exploitation.”The two charges he faces include receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography.The “unrelated investigation” referred to Routh’s father — who remains in custody after a judge ordered him detained pending trial Monday — a spokesperson with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Carolina confirmed to ABC News.Investigators said the pornography was found on a Samsung Galaxy Note device located inside Oran Routh’s primary bedroom in the residence, as well as another Galaxy Note device in Routh’s possession.
Investigators found the pornography “on a Samsung Galaxy Note device located inside Oran Routh’s primary bedroom in the residence, as well as another Galaxy Note device in Routh’s possession.”
The card held “hundreds of child pornography files,” including “videos from a known child pornography series created outside the state of North Carolina.”
The videos include children ages 6 to 10 years old.
Oron Routh should make an appearance in court later today in North Carolina.
Oron defended his father after authorities arrested him for trying to assassinate Trump in Florida on September 15:
The son of the person detained following the shooting incident on former President Donald Trump’s golf course in Florida on Sunday told CNN that he hopes everything has “just been blown out of proportion” and that it’s not like his father “to do anything crazy, much less violent.”Oran Routh, son of Ryan Routh, said his father is loving, caring and hardworking.
“Ryan is my father, and I don’t have any comment beyond a character profile of him as a loving and caring father, and honest, hardworking man. I don’t know what’s happened in Florida, and I hope things have just been blown out of proportion, because from the little I’ve heard, it doesn’t sound like the man I know to do anything crazy, much less violent. He’s a good father, and a great man, and I hope you can portray him in an honest light,” Oran Routh said.
Oron told The Daily Mail that his father hates Trump just “as every reasonable person does.”
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