Meghan Markle's father Thomas Markle Sr. cut off his ankle monitor following child porn arrest
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Set us as preferred Meghan Markle‘s estranged father, Thomas Markle Sr., allegedly cut off his ankle monitor following his arrest on child pornography charges.Four days ago, Markle Sr., 82, was ordered to wear a location monitoring device after a federal judge allowed him to remain out of custody pending his trial, according to Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S.
attorney for the Central District of California.Markle Sr.
was arrested in Florida and is charged in the Central District of California with possession of child pornography.“He allegedly cut the bracelet off at 1:45 a.m.last night,” Essayli posted on X on Tuesday.
“Release conditions are court orders, not suggestions.We are asking the court to revoke his release and detain him pending trial, and we will continue to prosecute this case to the fullest extent of the law.”U.S.
Magistrate Judge Lindsay Saxe Griffin has since ordered Markle Sr.to be jailed without bond at a hearing in Tampa, representatives from Essayli’s office told The Times.Markle Sr.
was arrested after federal authorities searched two storage units he allegedly rents in California.The storage units had been registered to Markle Sr.
since 2008, with his most recent payments on both made in October via auto-pay.Entertainment & Arts After reports surfaced that Thomas Markle Jr.
discovered explicit material involving minors in their father’s home, the Duchess of Sussex explains her choice to distance self from her father.Inside the storage units, agents say they found approximately 78 items, including slides, film negatives and books that contained suspected child pornography.The affidavit describes two images that show an adult man with a nude prepubescent girl.
A third image depicts a nude prepubescent girl what appears to be a motel room in the Philippines.A witness who has known...