A Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post employee is charged with possession of child pornography.
The FBI took 48-year-old Thomas LeGro into custody Thursday after searching his home on Alton Place in Northwest D.C.
Agents seized a laptop computer containing 11 videos depicting child pornography, the FBI said. The laptop belongs to LeGro, according to a federal criminal complaint.
When agents entered the house, they saw what appeared to be fractured pieces of a hard drive in a basement hallway and the empty cover of a hard drive in a basement office, according to the criminal complaint. LeGro was in the doorway at the top of the stairs to the basement.
The complaint describes six of the videos agents discovered and reveals the FBI had been watching LeGro’s internet activity since May 8.
LeGro, a deputy director of video for the Post, was part of a team of journalists who won a Pulitzer in 2018 for coverage of Judge Roy Moore and his run for the U.S. Senate in Alabama in 2017, which he lost. Several women accused Moore of sexually assaulting them when they were underage.
“The Post understands the severity of these allegations, and the employee has been placed on leave,” the publication said in a statement to News4.
A magistrate judge on Friday ordered LeGro held until a detention hearing scheduled for Wednesday.
LeGro asked for a public defender, but the judge indicated he may not qualify, so for now, it’s unclear who will represent LeGro.
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