Elderly Man Arrested for Watching Child Porn in Lowe's Parking Lot
A 73-year-old man was arrested Tuesday in the parking lot of a South Carolina Lowe's after someone told police he'd been sitting in a handicapped spot, acting suspicious. When cops approached him, Leroy Moore confessed he'd been using the store's free Wi-Fi to look at child porn.
Moore had been parked there with his laptop for 90 minutes, WSOC TV reported.
"When we asked him, he said he was watching little boys," said the arresting officer, York police lieutenant Rich Caddell, who captured Moore's confession and some of the images of "young boys in sex acts" on his body camera.
"What I watched ... will probably affect me for a while," Caddell told WSOC.
Since his arrest, Moore has been linked to several reports of a man in a Pontiac lurking in public parks and parking lots. He was also the subject of a previous child porn investigation, when the man he hired to fix his computer told police he'd stumbled on a folder of photos of topless young girls.
Moore was never charged over that 2010 report, but he's now facing up to 10 years in prison for child exploitation.
