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A former gubernatorial candidate in Maine is being charged with possession of child pornography.
Maine State Police arrested Eliot Cutler, 75, at his home in Brooklin Friday, perFox News. He was charged with possession of unlawful sexually explicit material of a minor under 12.
Police first searched Cutler’s $1.575 million farmhouse and $1.25 million townhome on Wednesday, two days before his arrest,WMTWreports.
Maine State Police did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Cutler, who was released Saturday after posting $50,000 bail, is accused of committing crimes from December to March. In December, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children told Maine State Police that someone in the state accessed an illegal photo, theAssociated Pressreports.
Hancock County District Attorney Matthew Foster told the AP that it “wouldn’t surprise [him] if more charges were on the way.”
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McKee added, according to thePress Herald, “Public dissemination of the information in the affidavit in support of the arrest warrant would more than create a reasonable possibility, that the release could, and likely would interfere with the ability of a court to impanel an impartial jury and conduct a fair trial and would promote spite and public scandal of a person, who has not yet been indicted. It would also potentially impede a continuing investigation.”
McKee did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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Cutler ran for governor of Maine in 2010 and 2014, both times as an independent. Republican Paul LePage beat Cutler in each race.
Cutler has since resigned from his position on the board of the Lerner Foundation.
“We were deeply disturbed to learn about the serious accusations brought against Eliot Cutler,” Executive Director Don Carpenter said, in part, in a statement shared on Lerner’swebsite. “In his former role on the Board of Directors, Eliot was involved in high-level strategy and governance and did not directly interface with students who participated in grant funded programming.”
source: people.com
