Priest arrested in Bay Area for child porn

FLORIDA
WTSP

Marcus A Grayson
August 22, 2015

A national manhunt ends here in the Bay Area. Stephen Pohl was a Catholic Priest from Louisville Kentucky but the FBI is also calling him a child pornographer.

Fifty-six-year-old Pohl was arrested by the FBI and the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office late yesterday. He’s facing federal charges of being in possession of child pornography on his computer.

The sign on the door reads ‘gone to the beach’, but that is not true for Stephen Pohl. He is in the Pinellas County Jail facing federal charges of child pornography. Many neighbors saw the police activity yesterday, “I saw a few undercover cars that definitely [did] not fit in. It was something out of a movie” saying Lauren Fechtmann. Many in here say they are shocked this priest lived a double life.

“It makes me feel very uncomfortable to think we might have had a child pornographer living among us”, saying Rudy Croce a Neighbor

According to Karen Tancredi, the sister of Pohl, they allowed their brother, Stephen Pohl to stay at their home for the summer while they are in Indiana.

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