The son of former President Donald Trump’s would-be assassin, Ryan Routh, has been taken into custody on federal charges of possessing child pornography, reports ABC News.
Routh was arrested in connection with the second assassination attempt of Trump in the past few months, when he staked out Trump at the Trump International Golf Club.
According to ABC News, 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” refers to Routh’s father who remains in custody after a judge ordered him detained pending trial on 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.
“A review of the SD card located in Device-1 revealed that it contained hundreds of child pornography files,” prosecutors wrote in the criminal complaint. “These files include videos from a known child pornography series created outside the state of North Carolina.”
The complaint included graphic descriptions of the videos and a chat from July in which Oran Routh allegedly responded to someone advertising the content for sale.
Oran Routh is expected to make an initial appearance in North Carolina federal court on Tuesday.
