10:56 AM PT -- We've obtained Paddock's booking photo.The brother of Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock has been arrested for child porn ... TMZ has learned.
Bruce Paddock was taken into custody moments ago in North Hollywood, CA at an assisted living home.Law enforcement sources tell us ... cops were tipped that there was child porn on his computer and they got a search warrant. Our sources say the investigation began before his brother, Stephen, shot up the Vegas music festival earlier this month.
Our sources say before the shooting cops were trying to locate Bruce without success, but after his brother committed his heinous act a tip came in Bruce was living at an assisted living facility.
Cops say they found child porn images on his computer.
The arrest was made by a joint task force that included the FBI and LAPD.
The brother of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock was arrested on Wednesday after police learned that he was in possession of child porn, according to TMZ.
The outlet reports that Bruce Paddock was arrested in North Hollywood, California, at an assisted living home by a joint task force including the FBI and the LAPD.
Law enforcement sources allegedly told TMZ that police were tipped off about illegal images on Paddock's computer. After obtaining a warrant and conducting a search, authorities arrested him.
The investigation into Bruce Paddock reportedly began before his brother, Stephen Paddock, committed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history at a Las Vegas music festival on Oct. 1.
Police officers were having trouble locating Bruce Paddock, but after the Las Vegas massacre, they received a tip on his whereabouts, TMZ reported.Can evil run in a family?
Bruce Paddock, the brother of Las Vegas shooter Stephen, has just been arrested on charges of child pornography.
The investigation was apparently going on before Stephen’s horrific killing spree which left nearly 60 people dead and hundreds injured during a country music festival in Sin City.
Authorities had been tipped off that Bruce was in possession of illegal content showing minors in sexual situations a while back, but were unable to locate him for some time. Only after Stephen’s mass murder-suicide was Bruce found living in an assisted living facility in LA. Details are hazy at the moment, but the FBI apparently checked out his computer and found enough proof to arrest him.
We don’t know much anything else at the moment, but it sounds like the Paddock family name is, to put it mildly, ruined.
Earlier this month, it was revealed that Paddock's father, Patrick Benjamin Paddock, was a bank robber who used to be on the FBI's Most Wanted list.
He was known as "Chrome Dome" for his shaved head and was captured in 1978 while running a bingo parlor in Oregon.
Big streak of BAD running through that family. What next I wonder. You have always said the nut don't fall far from the tree. I think you got that right.
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There is always someone in a family that dances by their own tune ... we call them black sheep of the family ... always with love .
ReplyDeleteThis Paddox family has a bad sad and demon blood running through their family .This is the first I have seen / heard of a family that all of them are evil.
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