FTA:
"the social messaging app Kik alerted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in April 2024 of several videos containing child sex abuse from an account with the username "joebidennnn69." Investigators found at least 10 of those videos had been shared from that account and connected it with May's mobile device and home IP address."

"Investigators also found the Eric Rentling account had conversations in Spanish with women from Colombia that "consisted largely of arranging meet up' dates, time, price negotiations, and rules regarding the videoing of sexual encounters, all of which are indicative of sex work." May would also allegedly conduct Facebook searches on South Carolina political candidates while on the Eric Rentling account, including those of his most recent primary opponent.

The memo further states May's activity on Kik revealed "he has a sexual interest in children the same age as his own children" and that he has "a sexual interest in ------" between young children and their parents.

"May engaged in this behavior on his cell phone and from his own home on multiple occasions, presumably without his wife's knowledge," the memo reads. "If he can hide this criminal activity from the person he shares a bedroom with, then he can easily hide it from any court enforcement mechanism. Furthermore, there is evidence that he has recently traveled to South America to engage in commercial sex, again presumably without his wife's knowledge that he ever even left the country. Thus, he is very likely to be able to evade detection by court enforcement of release conditions."

"Agents seized these devices as part of the criminal investigation:

One Lenovo Laptop
One Amazon Tablet
Four Cell Phones
Four Hard drives
Two DVD-Rs
19 Thumb drives