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    Police: Man viewed child porn on US flight

    BOSTON (AP) — Police say a man who was viewing child pornography on a domestic airline flight from Salt Lake City to Boston has been arrested.

    Massachusetts State Police say 47-year-old Grant Smith was sitting in first class Saturday afternoon when a fellow passenger saw the pornographic images on Smith's laptop and alerted the flight crew.

    When the Delta flight landed at Boston Logan International Airport just after 4 p.m., troopers interviewed Smith and subsequently arrested him.

    He has been charged with possession of child pornography, and police say additional charges could follow. His bail is set at $15,000. He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday.

    Smith was in police custody Saturday night and couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

     
    • chefmike  •  Roatán, Honduras  •  6 mths ago
      this has to go in the worlds dumbest criminals!
      • TIGRE 6 mths ago
        yea like you, cause you cannot like to me, you got deported from the U.S. talk about being dumb
      • Joe 6 mths ago
        Tigre... are you drunk or is it drugs?
      • the alias 6 mths ago
        tigre, kinda sounded like you are saying because chefmike didnt like you, he got deported from the US? just a little bit of advice: if you're high and/or drunk, you don't need to be on or anywhere near anything that displays to the world what you are thinking
    • Watch What U Say  •  Rusk, United States  •  6 mths ago
      My question is...If they were going to throw him off the plane....why did they have to land first?
    • bill w  •  6 mths ago
      Also for you travelers Watching any kind of porn in public could lead to problems for you if a child sees it , because under current law it is a crime to expose children to this material even if you did not mean too
      • t 6 mths ago
        as well it should be. view your 'legal' porn garbage in privacy
      • Mike Hunt 6 mths ago
        I watch it in the privacy of my own home, and I worry the fascists in this "free" country are going to jail, torture, and mutilate us for that someday.
      • Mike Hunt 6 mths ago
        And no, it's not "kiddie" it's the adult stuff, I can just imagine a bunch of you fascist bootlickers calling the FBI saying this #$%$ is a pedo get him kill him torture him nuke his entire city!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean I really could imagine that, there are so many freaks that post here.
    • a voice in the wilderness  •  Kansas City, United States  •  6 mths ago
      authorities arrested this guy for VIEWING child pornography which is bad enough,yet sandusky runs free and is allowed to have television interviews,how unequal is that?
      • C 6 mths ago
        Sandusky did get arrested too. This guy will post bond and be able to "run free" as well. I am not defending either of them. I am just getting tired of dumb people that don't seem to possess basic comprehension or take the time to try.
      • Kelly 6 mths ago
        Innocent until proven guilty. Do you want a police state? What if your spoiled kid didn't get what they wanted for Christmas and claimed you molested them? Would you want a chance in court?
      • Claudius Stahlkopf HOTEL ... 6 mths ago
        Lot's of judges pedo and politicians , that 's why is no justice
    • Emma  •  6 mths ago
      He must be a real, hard core pervert not to be able to even wait a few hours to view those disgusting images. Glad he was caught.
      • Kelly 6 mths ago
        How disgusting were the images? I wouldn't want to see them myself, but the article did not say what they were images of, other than "child porn". My parents took a picture of me when I was a baby on a bearskin rug while I was naked. Is that child porn, and should my parents have been locked up?
      • Y 6 mths ago
        @Kelly, people know when they see a porn image, it doesn't take a lot of imagination. Surely, it was digusting enough for a fellow passenger to report him. Lets leave it at that. In life sometimes we don't need all the details to understand something. You must have had a hard time in life trying to see details of every single thing.
      • SV 6 mths ago
        Yes. Let's not let things like facts bog us down.
    • Matthew G  •  Killeen, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Way to go concerned citizen whoever you are. So glad someone is not just looking-the other-way
    • timw  •  Defiance, United States  •  6 mths ago
      "Child Pornography" is much too nice a term for what is actually a recording of a child being abused and raped.
    • Michael G  •  Newark, United States  •  6 mths ago
      What I'd like to know is why these sites are operating to begin with...Anyone with a brain knows that the Internet is not completely "safe," somebody, somewhere has the ability to "watch" you via your computer's IP address. Why doesn't the gov't just shut these sites down?

      This goes along the same line as the "war" on drugs. Drugs are a bad thing...Child Porn is a bad thing, yet the gov't addresses the issue the same way. Arrest the small-town dealer on the street corner, arrest the pervert watching the child porn on his laptop, and leave the drug kingpins and major porn companies to keep on producing their sewerage and making it available to anyone with the money to buy or view it.
    • Stephanie Bloss  •  Dallastown, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Great they got him. To bad all criminals are not this stupid
    • deepwater  •  Aberdeen, United Kingdom  •  6 mths ago
      Who watches porn on airplanes? What a perverted retard...
    • Ann  •  Edinburg, United States  •  6 mths ago
      My question is why aren't those who make the child porn arrested and put a stop to it being online? I would like to see them arrested as well. Any kind of thing like this is horrific but if your going to arrest those who just watch it, why not arrest those who make the videos and is doing the abusing and rapeing as well.
    • Tuy  •  6 mths ago
      Anyone who views, creates, or has any involvement in child pornography needs to be shot. Period !!!!! To violate an innocent child for pleasure and inflict a lifetime of pain and suffering is inexcusable.
    • from the old school  •  6 mths ago
      Open door, throw from plane, "NEXT!???"...end of problem.

      Thank you to who reported it.
    • AllanG  •  Hopewell, United States  •  6 mths ago
      SO please tell me how Sanduski is still walking free? If this guy is in jail for VIEWING sick videos on his computer.
    • Michelle  •  Menomonie, United States  •  6 mths ago
      A pedophile who can afford to fly first class, held on $15K bail? Anyone else see the problem here?
    • aj  •  Olympia, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Just because you're 35,000 feet up in the air doesn't make you immune from criminal activity.
      Very stupid move on the part of pedo, smart move on the part of the passenger. Some people may have viewed this and just ignored the situation. Kudos to the passenger and the airline for reporting this to the authorities.
    • Blogger  •  6 mths ago
      what an idiot!!!
    • Thinking Man  •  Riverview, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Props to the guy that turned him in. THAT's how you're supposed to do it, JoePa.
    • Trampus  •  6 mths ago
      Sick , and stupid !
    • OhNo  •  Atlanta, United States  •  6 mths ago
      See how SICK they are...couldnt even wait til he got home for this perversion. There is NO rehabilitation!
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