GRANITE FALLS, N.C. (WBTV) - A Granite Falls pastor accused of having child sexual abuse materials has now been federally charged.
Ashley James Crouse was arrested November 3, 2023 following an investigation based off a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The tip first came in April 2023 from the cloud storage service Dropbox, which reported one of its users possessed child pornography.
“I need to save all of this reprehensible and highly illegal material. Let me put some of it in my house … some of it on my church/work computer … and some of it I’ll give to someone else to hold on to for me. But I’ll always lock my office door, so it’ll be fine.”