An award-winning journalist with the Washington Post made his first court appearance on Friday after being charged with possession of child pornography.

The Department of Justice announced charges against Thomas Pham LeGro, 48, on Friday. LeGro is the Deputy Director of Video at the Washington Post.

The DOJ says that on June 26, FBI agents executed a search warrant at LeGro’s residence and seized several electronic devices. Authorities say that they found a folder that contained 11 videos depicting child sexual abuse material on LeGro’s work laptop.

During the search, FBI agents also reported that they saw what appeared to be fractured pieces of a hard drive in the hallway outside the room where LeGro’s work laptop was found.

According to a personnel profile on the Washington Post’s website, LeGro serves as the Deputy Director of Video.

They say he joined the video department in 2013 as an editor on the breaking-news desk and in 2015 became the senior producer overseeing the International, Style and Technology teams.

In 2017, he was part of the team of Post reporters awarded a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Senate candidacy of Roy Moore. He was then promoted to executive producer in 2021, overseeing the Post’s Politics, National, International and Technology teams.

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