Posted on 10/09/2006 11:44:17 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
LONG BEACH Authorities say former television reporter Rod Bernsen was arrested over the weekend after coming off a cruise ship in Long Beach.
F-B-I spokeswoman Laura Eimiller says Bernsen, a former Los Angeles Police Department sergeant and K-T-T-V Channel Eleven reporter, was arrested based on allegations he committed a crime aboard a cruise ship.
U-S attorney's office spokesman Thom Mrozek said he couldn't say what Bernsen was booked for because the complaint hasn't been filed yet.
Eimiller says Bernsen is being held without bail pending an initial appearance tomorrow afternoon in L-A federal court.
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KFI is reporting it has to do with inappropriate contact with a minor on the high seas.
If found guilty make him walk the plank... :)
watch who defends him as opposed to the Foley stuff
I think in this atmosphere he is on his own, at least until after the elections. Then he may get some democrat NAMBLA supports to come to his defense. :D (that was a joke, not sure if it was a with a boy or girl)
Whoa.
You wonder, was it a girl, 17, who looked 25 and SAID she was 25? Or was he diddling girls? There is a difference.
From a blog on this:
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"KFI is reporting it has to do with inappropriate contact with a minor on the high seas."
A page cruise?
Note: Rod was the 'in helicopter talent' and not the actual pilot.
L.A. Times reporting that he was caught in the ship's sauna with two 12 year-old boys.
good grief...
>>two 12 year-old boys.
KTTV said there was some sort of confrontation between him and the boys' parents. (I have to wonder what two 12-year-olds are doing in a sauna with a grown man, but whatever...)
Cripes, Mr. Bernsen. wtf!
(If he doesn't challenge "high seas" automatically making his case "federal," he is truly crazy.)
KFI reporting they were nephews...or related. Including sexual talk and touching, repeated times.
He is related to Corbin Bernsen.
ok, my NAMBLA joke from earlier now isn't a joke
Bernsen always seemed to be a decent sort when he'd fill in on KFI.
Time will tell if he's a Foley-esque fink or victim of a false accusation.
I never knew that. Which makes him related to Corbin's mother, who plays Kay Chancellor on The Young and the Restless. What are they, half-brothers? cousins?
FBI agents interviewed the two alleged victims when the ship pulled into port early Saturday, the sources said, and Bernsen brought a lawyer on board. He was arrested several hours later. His wife and his sister were with him on the trip, one of the sources said.
On Sunday, federal prosecutors brought a complaint against Bernsen to U.S. Magistrate Judge Jennifer T. Lum, who found that there was probable cause to continue holding the former reporter until courts open today, the sources said.
Can you believe what the worlds coming to. Probably the alcohol that made him do it.
His own news station said yesterday that it was 12 year old boys.
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