[NH Union Leader] - BRENTWOOD — New York Times bestselling author Brendan DuBois | …a prolific and popular author, the former newspaper reporter and Jeopardy! champion lives with his wife in New Hampshire… |
DuBois, 64, is currently being held under preventive detention without bail. New Hampshire Circuit Court Judge Polly Hall is taking the request for bail under advisement.
The award-winning and bestselling Seacoast mystery and suspense writer turned himself in to Exeter police on Wednesday.
The arrest affidavit for DuBois shows the Exeter Police Department received two "cybertips" from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in March of two Google Drive files suspected to be child pornography. The files were uploaded on Jan. 18 and subsequently flagged by Google.
Investigators traced the IP address of the Google Drive account associated with the images to the Exeter residence of DuBois and his wife, Mona Pinette.
On May 7, investigators executed a search warrant on Dubois’s home, during which Dubois declined to speak with investigators but Pinette agreed to. Pinette informed investigators that only she and her husband knew the password to their home’s private Wi-Fi network and that the two own separate computers, never using one another’s devices.
Read on for highly incriminating Google searches and other fallout.