Judge orders real estate agent Albert E. Stroble, of Lucia Lane, to not have contact with his children
A Lower Providence Township real estate agent and youth coach facing 150 felony counts of possession of child pornography for allegedly downloading and sharing child sexual abuse material depicting girls as young as 8 to Dropbox and Telegram was ordered Thursday at an emergency bail hearing to move out of his home and to stay away from his two young daughters
Albert E. Stroble, 48, of the 3800 block of Lucia Lane, a licensed real estate agent with Compass Real Estate and a former coach at Chestnut Hill College, is also charged with a felony count of criminal use of a communications device, according to court records.
Stroble is free on $30,000 cash bail. A preliminary hearing is set for April 28 before Magisterial District Judge Richard H. Welsh.
Assistant District Attorney Anne Caitlyn O’Connell sought the emergency hearing and asked the judge to modify the bail to include no contact with all children, according to The Mercury.
On Thursday, Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O'Neill ordered Stroble to have only phone contact with his children. He was ordered to leave his marital home and to have no contact with any children, including his own.
“These are serious allegations. I’m looking to protect children, whether they think they need it or not. Move out until these allegations are handled,” O'Neill told Stroble on Thursday, according to The Mercury.
Per the report, O’Neill modified a lower court judge’s order that previously set Stroble’s bail at 10% of $300,000 with a condition that he was to have no unsupervised contact with children other than his two daughters.
“I didn’t want him to have any contact with children, including his own children, because the videos that were found on his computer were incredibly disturbing videos involving child sexual abuse and he was having conversations online with individuals about sexually exploiting children. Based on all that, I did not feel it was appropriate for him to be able to have contact with minors,” O’Connell told The Mercury.
Stroble is allowed to use a computer only for real estate and work-related matters.
Per the report, O'Neill said Stroble cannot simply go home like everything is good.
“He can’t be in the house,” said O’Neill.
Defense lawyers Brooks Thomas Thompson and Arthur T. Donato Jr., called the decision “a radical remedy," per the article.
The investigation began Jan. 12, 2026 when the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a report from Dropbox regarding a digital file uploaded to an account in the name of Stroble, police said, which contained child pornography of a 9-year-old girl.
Dropbox provided account information to detectives, including Stroble’s name, email address, and IP address, according to the complaint. The Verizon IP address was traced to Stroble’s home, police said. Then, Google’s legal team provided further account details on Stroble to authorities. Detectives said property records showed Stroble and his wife as owners of the Lucia Lane home where the IP address was registered.
Detectives said, in reviewing the contents of Stroble’s Dropbox account, they found three videos involving CSAM with underage girls.
On March 23, 2026, a search warrant was executed at Stroble’s home, wherein he was interviewed by detectives in an unmarked vehicle, where he was told he was free to leave at any time, police said.
Stroble was told authorities were seizing computers, cell phones and other electronics that can connect to the internet. When asked why police would be at his home, he told detectives “he had received a video or a picture and he had deleted it immediately.”
“Stroble disclosed to police that he has been engaged in sexual and taboo conversations with people that he has met on the internet. Stroble described these discussion online as adult conversations and he described some of the conversational subject matter as ‘taboo,’” police wrote in the affidavit.
When asked about said conversations, Stroble allegedly said the Conversations placed the sexual focus on children, particularly girls. He allegedly admitted that some of the chats would make him sexually aroused and he would masturbate.
Police said Stroble would seek out websites as a means of meeting people online, sites that showed BDSM and domination/submission videos. He told detectives, according to the affidavit, that he would visit paid sites like “Club Teen,” “Teen 18” or “Club 18,” wherein conversation on those sites would transition to other peer-to-peer communications like Telegram, Google Chat, and Wire.
During a forensics review of his laptop, detectives found the videos that were uploaded to Dropbox, and the Telegram app installed on the computer.
All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.
