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Feds: Child porn charges for prominent East End architect

Architect Jay Lockett Sears talks at the Hamptons

Photo credit: Newsday/Paul J. Bereswill | Architect Jay Lockett Sears talks at the Hamptons Celebrity roundtable at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center. (July 9, 2003)

A prominent East End architect, who also runs his own charitable organization for troubled families, was arrested Friday by FBI agents on child pornography charges, officials said.

Jay Lockett Sears, 73, who was a principal in the Quogue architectural firm of Sears & Sears, has designed homes priced at as much as $15 million for such celebrities as Michael J. Fox, Susan Lucci and Clint Eastwood.

Sears...

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