The son of would-be Trump assassin Ryan Wesley Routh is set to appear in a North Carolina court later Tuesday on child pornography charges.
Oran Routh, 35, is scheduled for a detention hearing in federal court where prosecutors will likely argue Oran should remain behind bars until his trial for allegedly having hundreds of sick child abuse images on his phones.
Oran’s appearance is set to take place just a day after his dad was arraigned in a Florida federal court Monday for allegedly stalking Donald Trump with an AK-47-style assault rifle while the former president was golfing at his West Palm Beach, Fla., club on Sept. 15.
The feds discovered a trove of disturbing content when they searched Oran’s Greensboro, N.C., home in connection to a separate investigation on Sept. 21.
Investigators found “hundreds of child pornography files” — including videos of children as young as 6 being sexually abused — on a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 found inside a laptop bag in his second-floor rental unit.
There was also allegedly additional child porn on another Galaxy Note 9 that Oran had on his person, the feds claim.
And on the second phone, there were messages from July asking for a preview of the twisted content before two files of child porn were sent to the device, prosecutors have claimed.
Oran was indicted Monday on one charge of receiving child porn and one charge of possessing child porn and he faces up to 20 years behind bars if convicted.
The elder Routh is being held in jail pending his trial on charges of of attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, assaulting a federal officer, possession of a firearm and ammunition and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. He faces up to life in prison if convicted on the top charge.
Oran has been behind bars since his Sept. 24 arrest. He has prior raps in the Tar Heel State from 2015 and 2016 including for allegedly driving while impaired, assault on a female in two separate incidents and interfering in emergency communications.
Eric Placke, with the Federal Public Defender’s Office, which is representing Routh, declined to comment Tuesday morning.
