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Subway spokesman Jared Fogel's home was the target of a law enforcement raid Tuesday morning.
Here are five things to know about the man who rose to fame for dropping weight thanks to a sandwich shop.
1. Known as the Subway guy, Jared Fogle was born in December 1977. As a freshman at Indiana University, he weighed 425 pounds. He realized he lived near a Subway restaurant, only 10 steps, as he told Men's Health magazine, and started eating their subs. In 1998, he originally dropped more than 190 pounds eating nothing but the fast-food sandwiches during college. He dropped more than 235 pounds overall eating Subway and exercising, The Indianapolis Star reported.
2. He's done more than 300 Subway commercials as of 2013. He told Men's Health that he was asked one time to sign a sandwich, not the paper, but the sandwich itself.
3. Fogle started The Jared Foundation in 2004. It helps prevent childhood obesity by encouraging kids to exercise and eating healthy.
4. Federal and state authorities raided Fogle's home in Zionsville, Indiana early Tuesday morning as part of a child porn investigation, WTHR reported. He was not arrested, but was detained as law enforcement officials removed electronics and analyzed them. His wife and children left the house shortly after it began. The Indianapolis Star reported that an FBI spokesperson confirmed that they were in the area for a criminal investigation, but would not comment what they were looking for.
5. Russel Taylor, the executive director of the Jared Foundation was arrested in April after investigors with the Indiana Crimes Against Children Task Force searched Taylor's home, WTHR reported. Law enforcement officials said they found child pornography and arrested him. Taylor was with the foundation for eight years, WTHR reported. Taylor tried to kill himself in May, but survived, The Indianapolis Star reported. He faces seven counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child porn. Shortly after Taylor's arrest, Fogle said he was shocked over the allegations and that the foundation was "severing all ties" with Taylor, The Indianapolis Star reported.
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