SECURITY footage has captured the moment the son of the man who allegedly tried to assassinate Donald Trump on his Florida golf course was arrested by cops.
Oran Alexander Routh, son of Ryan Routh, was arrested by the feds on child pornography charges earlier this week.
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He was arrested after cops had raided his home in Greensboro, North Carolina on Saturday.
As part of their probe, two Samsung Galaxy Note devices were uncovered and hundreds of child pornography files were discovered on an SD card, per legal docs seen by The U.S. Sun.
Security footage, obtained by the Fox affiliate WGHP, showed Routh surrendering to cops.
Routh, 35, wearing a black Stetson-like hat trooped toward officers with his hands in the air.
He turned around as two cops holding firearms swooped in on him.
Local mechanic Lacine Cherif saw the arrest play out in real time and likened it to something out of a film.
“You usually see that on TV or the movies, but I actually saw it in real life … It was actually scary,” he told WGHP.
Cherif revealed that officers had been staking out the area before making the arrest.
Routh has been charged with counts of possessing and receiving child sexual abuse material, according to court docs.
Cops revealed they found explicit content on one of the cell phones, as reported by NPR.
His home was raided as part of the ongoing probe into his father Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, and he is due to appear in court for a detention hearing on October 1.
Ryan Routh allegedly tried to assassinate Trump on September 15 after he reportedly scoped out the West Palm Beach golf course for 12 hours before being caught.
Routh lay in wait in the bushes around 500 yards from the former president and cops found a backpack and a GoPro device that was discarded at the scene.
A Secret Service agent opened fire after spotting the barrel of Routh’s weapon.
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The gunman fled the scene before he was later caught as cops executed a traffic stop.
Routh was initially charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and carrying a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
He has also been charged with the attempted assassination of an ex-president.
It was thought Routh was armed with an AK-47 style weapon but officials revealed the gun was a SKS semiautomatic gun.
Prosecutors revealed cell phone data pinpointed Routh to be at the golf course and near Trump’s luxury residence, Mar-a-Lago.
Routh also penned a note that revealed his intentions to try and kill Trump.
The letter started with the line “Dear world.”
“This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster,” it said.
“It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job.
“Everyone across the globe from the youngest to the oldest know that Trump is unfit to be anything, much less a U.S. president.
Ryan Routh letter
The Justice Department released a chilling letter from would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh about his plan to kill Donald Trump on Monday.
“Dear world,” the note began.
“This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster.
“It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job.
“Everyone across the globe from the youngest to the oldest know that Trump is unfit to be anything, much less a U.S. president.
“US presidents must at bare minimum embody the moral fabric that is America, and be kind, caring and selfless and always stand for humanity.
“Trump fails to understand any of [that],” the letter concluded
“US presidents must at bare minimum embody the moral fabric that is America, and be kind, caring and selfless and always stand for humanity.”
Cops also discovered a notebook full of criticism toward the government.
Routh, a pro-Ukrainian activist, could face life behind bars if he’s convicted.
Attorney General Merrick Garland branded the assassination attempt “heinous” during a press conference on Tuesday.
He warned Routh could be hit with extra charges.
Trump accused the Justice Department of downplaying the case, as reported by The New York Post.
He claimed the charges against Routh were a slap on the wrist.
Judge Aileen Cannon has been assigned the court case.
She threw out Trump’s classified documents case in July.
Trump appeared to make a joke about the apparent assassination attempt days later on the Fox News show Gutfeld!
He joked that golf is a dangerous game.
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