Son of Ryan Routh, charged in Trump assassination attempt, charged with child pornography

The son of the man facing gun charges over staking out former President Donald Trump’s golf course was charged Tuesday with possessing child pornography.

Oran Routh of Greensboro, North Carolina, faces federal charges of receipt of child pornography on July 23 and possession of child pornography on Sept. 21, according to court records.

The charges followed the FBI search of his apartment in connection to “an investigation unrelated to child exploitation,” court records said. The FBI found a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 device in a laptop bag with a memory card containing “hundreds of child pornography files” involving children as young as about 8 years old, court records said.

Routh has not yet entered a formal plea to the charges. His lawyer was not listed in court records.

Routh is the son of Ryan Routh, 58, who faces two federal gun charges in what federal authorities called an assassination attempt on Trump. The elder Routh has been linked to an SKS rifle found hidden at Trump International Golf Club, where a Secret Service agent shot at a suspect who leveled a weapon in Trump’s direction on Sept. 15.

Prosecutors revealed Monday that the elder Routh had traveled from Greensboro to West Palm Beach on Aug. 14, before his phone was tracked for nearly a month near the golf course and Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Ryon McCabe ordered Routh detained without bond after a three-hour hearing in Florida, where federal prosecutors linked him to the rifle found at Trump International Golf Club.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Son of Ryan Routh charged with having child pornography