Report: Vegas shooter's brother arrested for child porn

3 News (NBC Las Vegas) ^

[hoosiermama]

Ping

[piasa]

Makes more sense than anything else. Multiple houses would be useful to a pedo ring too.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Seems like someone, uh, earlier when this all happened, suggested pornography might have been one of the factors that desensitized this guy and lead to him killing people. Wasn’t well received. Oh well...

[Enchante]

I recall from articles in the first days that this CA brother had something of a rap sheet (though not child porn related that I recall). Petty theft and stuff like that, but over a period of years, so he certainly wasn’t some model citizen. Child porn, though, WOW. Unless there’s some crazy conspiracy going on it sounds like a really messed up family (or there may be a conspiracy AND it’s a really messed up family, but I meant are they being “set up” somehow??).

I’m not onboard with any conspiracy yet beyond Paddock as single shooter, but it certainly is deeply troubling that the publicly available information so far is both too limited and chaotic/bewildering.

[trebb]

I thought he looked uncomfortable with the attention as he claimed total ignorance of what his brother was....

[ladyjane]

It is not at all far fetched. A few years ago someone was writing a lot about possible planting of porn on suspects' computers. Many of the people accused of crimes had the identical porn on their computers. It was felt that it was planted.

Years ago they would get a criminal on tax evasion. That's how they got Al Capone. Maybe the new hook is kiddy porn.

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

Seems to run in the family. This is either a cousin or ‘Vegas’ Steve in the earlier days if the age of 44 refer to an earlier arrest date? hmmm.

http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/South-Carolina/Unsorted-SC/Stephen-Charles-Paddock.8633172.html

Mugshots.com ID: 8633172
Name: STEPHEN CHARLES PADDOCK

DOB: N/A
Age: 44
Height: 5’ 10”
Sex: M
Weight: 167 lb (76 kg)
Race: White
Hair Color: Brown
Registration #: 0000017117

Level: Adult Predator
Status: Active
Last Verification Date: N/A
Comments: “ Probation Conditions
Address: 4460 COMMITTED TO A STATE INSTITUTION COLUMBIA, SC 29210, Richland County

Aliases:
PAUL FORE
PAUL S FORE
PAUL STEVEN FORE
BRUCE LYNN
STEPHEN PADDOCK
STEPHEN C PADDOCK

Offenses:
Description Date Convicted Conviction State Date Released Details
35-42-4-3 - Child Molesting 01/09/1989 Indiana
35-42-4-3 - Child Molesting 04/06/1994 Indiana
16-15-140 - COMMIT OR ATTEMPT LEWD ACT ON CHILD <16(*) 11/28/2001 South Carolina

[glenduh]

First find an abandoned computer???

“Police found more than 600 child pornography images on his computer, which was left behind in a Sun Valley auto repair shop where he squatted in 2014. But after he was evicted he disappeared and police had been searching for him ever since.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5016979/Las-Vegas-shooter-s-brother-arrested-child-porn.html#ixzz4wY7inOqC

[Robert DeLong]

It says right in the portion of the article that was posted:

TMZ says before the shooting, police were unable to locate Bruce, and were notified he lived at an assisted living facility after the tragedy. Bruce is not the same brother who has made TV rounds, that man was Eric Paddock.

[TigersEye]

Different brother. Says so in the excerpt of the article.

[ladyjane]

Yes. Didn’t you know? Every time someone abandons a computer the FBI comes in and checks it for kiddie porn. Haven’t you seen them cruising the streets on trash pickup day looking for abandoned computers?

[trebb]

Thanks - got lazy and “excerpted” what I read.