By Jody Callahan of The Commercial Appeal

Two days after the Downtown Church fired Rick Trotter because of "deception and moral failures of a sexual nature," the Memphis Police Department opened an investigation into the Grizzlies announcer.

On Tuesday, that investigation led police to issue an arrest warrant for Trotter on four counts of charges that he photographed someone without their consent at the Downtown Church. The warrant added that there were at least three reported victims, and that Trotter was "making upskirt videos of church members," apparently "while services were going on."

Just after 6 p.m. Tuesday, Trotter, 40, was booked into the Shelby County Jail. He was being held on $70,000 bond, officials said.

The Grizzlies parted ways with Trotter last month, but didn't announce that until Tuesday, when news of the arrest warrant broke.

"Rick Trotter is no longer affiliated with the Grizzlies organization. We have no further comment on the matter," the team said in a statement.

A statement released Tuesday by his former church, which holds services at Central Station on South Main and is part of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church denomination, hinted at what the warrant spells out.

"We, the elders of Downtown Church, are deeply saddened to announce that, effective May 27, Rick Trotter was terminated as an employee of Downtown Church. This was the result of deception and moral failures of a sexual nature.

"As you can imagine, this revelation has been deeply devastating to all of us. We, as elders, have come around his wife and children offering spiritual, emotional and financial support. We will continue to support and encourage them, and we know the Downtown Church family will follow suit.

"We have responded swiftly as information has emerged, with counsel from trusted professionals. As we move forward in this process, we want the congregation to know we are fully committed to operating with integrity and transparency."

Before being hired on at Downtown Church, Trotter was an employee of Fellowship Memphis. He was also let go from that church.

The Grizzlies chose Trotter as their new announcer in 2006, picking someone who had no prior experience in that field. Before that, he was managing a Chick-fil-A in Atlanta but moved to Memphis to work with his church.

Although Trotter shows no serious prior arrest record in Memphis, he was arrested for shoplifting in Atlanta in the mid-1990s.

Numerous messages left for Trotter and his family as well as officials with both the Downtown Church and Fellowship Memphis were not returned Tuesday.