Police have arrested a doctor in Huntersville on child pornography charges.
Dr. David Shope, 41, a hematologist-oncologist, was charged on Oct. 1 with two counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, according to Mecklenburg County jail records.
Shope is now free on a $120,000 bail.
According to media, Shope was arrested after the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Cyber Crimes Unit conducted an eight-month-long investigation related to pornography on the Internet.
Shope had worked in Huntersville at Southern Oncology Specialists. It was unsure as of Thursday if Shope was still employed there.
