BRYAN, Texas — A man was arrested in Bryan on Thursday by local authorities and FBI agents for possession of child pornography, according to a police report.
Around 10 a.m. that day, authorities executed a search warrant on a home in Williams Bend in Bryan related to the possession and distribution of child pornography. Authorities later detained Reuben Waller Boyer III, 25, at his home. It was noted that in the police report that he was wearing a FedEx photo that allowed officials to confirm he was the person they were looking for.
After being detained, Boyer confessed many of his actions to authorities, including:
- He had viewed child pornography for at least the past five years, most recently within the past couple of days
- He had been banned from a social media platform for reaching out to minors on the site
- He had once used a live video chat platform to have a 14-year-old boy expose himself to him
Boyer told authorities he would download the material from the "dark web" and save the content to an external drive, later re-watching the content on his laptop.
It was also noted in the report that the officer who investigated the external drive that Boyer didn't check every file due to the volume of content that was there.
According to Brazos County Jail Records, Boyer's bond has been set at $20,000 for a possession of child pornography charge.
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