Police: Man Arrested for Looking at Child Porn During Flight…in First Class
- Posted on November 27, 2011 at 2:28pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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BOSTON (The Blaze/AP) — Police say a Utah man who was viewing child pornography on a Delta flight from Salt Lake City to Boston has been arrested.
Massachusetts State Police say 47-year-old Grant Smith, of Cottonwood Heights, Utah, 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 plane landed at Boston Logan International Airport just after 4 p.m., troopers interviewed Smith and subsequently arrested him.
Police said other passengers took cell phone video of Smith, a chemistry professor, looking at the images, Boston ABC affiliate WCVB-TV reported.
He has been charged with possession of child pornography, and police say additional charges could follow. His bail is set at $15,000, and he’s scheduled to be arraigned Monday.
Smith was in police custody Saturday night and couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
Delta Air Lines Inc. is based in Atlanta.
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Comments (72)
Larry Sheldon
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:46pm“Police said other passengers took cell phone video of Smith, a chemistry professor, looking at the images…”
Were they arrested for possession too? Why not?
Report Post »jzs
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:54pmIf he was flying first class he must have been a typical Republican job creator. I don‘t even want to think about what kind of jobs he’s creating.
Report Post »spysea
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:14pmJZS head back to your cave please….. dithering fool equating Republicans and first class …. classic progressive babble
Report Post »ZetaRho62
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:22pm@JZS, Perhaps because he was a professor he was naturally a liberal and his first class flight was funded by taxpayers from whom he received a Department of Energy stimulus grant. And if he truly is a liberal then he‘ll claim that HE was the victim and he’ll try and sue the other passengers and airline who outed him for violating his right to privacy and the ACLU will defend him. LOL
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 10:58pmjzs
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:54pm
If he was flying first class he must have been a typical Republican job creator. I don‘t even want to think about what kind of jobs he’s creating.
No, he wasn’t a Republican he was a democratic union thug. His excuse for looking at the child porno pictures is ‘they are art.’ Must be the cousin of the liberal professor who takes provocative pictures of himself naked with one of his naked students alleging it is art. Oh these bleeding heart lib turds!
Report Post »Camera Mom
Posted on November 28, 2011 at 3:13amTo JZS Chemistry Professors do not create jobs, they are always Marxists and they are often found getting drunk with liberal slimes like you after exchanging porn websites.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on November 28, 2011 at 7:15amThere are more rich Democrats than Republicans, look at Obama’s contributors.
That said, there are also pop ups from spam emails that put that on your screen before you even realize it’s up there. I would call for an investigation to look for a pattern of child porn.
Report Post »Texan Man
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:01pmThe part that gets me is that The Blaze had to add “…In First Class” to the headline. As if that makes the crime somehow worse. Come on guys, you can do better.
Report Post »RavenGlenn
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 8:17pmSeriously. I just commented on another article where the same sort of stuff is going on. What the heck has happened to TheBlaze writers? They have turned into every other news media out there now.
Report Post »teddie888
Posted on November 28, 2011 at 9:41amIt’s part of the detail of the story and where it took place.
Report Post »johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 7:16pmAnd folks chide me for wanting public hangings to make a comeback?
How did we conquer a continent? Did local law enforcement make speedy arrests? Were the accused given trial by jury? Did they hang murderers, rapists (and horse thieves) if found guilty? You bet. Now we have generations who live without fear of reprisal.
And just a minor correction for those who wish to “dress-up“ the act that took place so that the chemistry professor could watch his ”child porn.” Call it what it is. It is the rape of a child.
But, since we kill 50,000 future citizens every year without consternation, the loss of citizen rights for those who can‘t defend themselves is becoming more or less acceptable to a portion of the world’s population. While I’m writing this, some sicko is traveling to a third world country for sex with kids.
Fear of swift and decisive retribution has to come back to the forefront of our justice system. Oh, and leave the hoods off so that others can see what the face of a man dead by hanging looks like. It‘s not a pretty sight and that’s why it was done.
Report Post »beaubird
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 5:32pmOpen the door and toss his butt out without a parachute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on November 28, 2011 at 3:21amAnd after you leave the airport, head out to the nearest chinese restaurant
Report Post »princessnutsack
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 5:12pmYeah but thank goodness we have all the dope smokers locked up doing 120 day shocks. Because clearly that is our societies big issue. *rolls eyes*
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 4:54pmSee these are the type of people that need to live in those spooky little camps that they{spooky people} are building for ahemm idont know but we can stick them in there so they can be with like minded people. It may be wrong to kill them but we sure as he!! shouldnt have to sit next to thier NASTY moraless self as they indulge in thier sick addiction ……….some people are just disgusting……………………
Report Post »ares338
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 4:46pmA dumbass pornster…..he deserves to be euthanized….slowly and painfully!
Report Post »PKama
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 5:32pmA College Professor ??? Must be one of those sick liberal professors that think that NAMBLA and child molestation and child pornographic organizations like that should be legalized. Who would have thunk what with God being taken out of every aspect of our public education system while being infiltrated by the perverted organizations like the homosexual right movement. God help us.
Report Post »bobh2121
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 4:32pmIf I wouldn’t have been arrested for an act of terrorism on the flight…. this dirtbag would have met my elbow,fore-arm and fists.
Report Post »village idiot
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 4:30pmChange the law to 25 years mandatory, that may help sweep away the trash and more supporter of the black jimmy carter will be in locked up.
Report Post »Tex Expatriate
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 6:09pmThat’s not enough time, and here’s why: During my professional life as a psychotherapist I had numbers of these people “sentenced” to do therapy with me for various periods of time. They taught me that they regard pedophilia as normal sex, and in fact for them it is their normal. They think their is something wrong with us! They aren’t going to change their preference anymore than normal heterosexual men and women are going to change theirs to homosexuality or pedophilia or necrophilia.
You can’t even put these people on electronic leashes. They’ll bring their sexual desires to them.
Report Post »nueces
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 4:25pmCatching one of these monsters should lead to at least dozens of others. Everyone in this puke’s address book or cellphone should be put under surveillance.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 4:42pmYou never hear of the powers that be shutting down the sites were this material comes from…I could copy and paste half-a-dozen URLs to this stuff,I would get in trouble but the sites themselves would remain untouched by law enforcement…It is just like the war on drugs…They don’t go after the main suppliers
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on November 28, 2011 at 3:51am@URRYBR: Bokko is on this site for one reason: Trolling.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 4:11pmWhat, a guy flying from the Mormon state of Utah to liberal Boston, view child pornography? That’s not very good PR for one of our Republican candidates. Just sayin’.
Report Post »BoldFreshJew
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 4:15pmTroll more.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:12pmHe’s a professor in Utah. That doesn‘t mean he’s from there. Hell, he was probably flying home to visit his family. He probably couldn’t wait to get to Boston to visit his sister and her kids, take them to Chuck E. Cheese and the skating rink.
Report Post »urrybr
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 9:31pmHow dare you, Bakko Bama. You are a sick individual. It is obvious that you’re a “Mormon-hater.” If you don’t like “Mormons” at least keep the hatred to yourself, you jackass!
Report Post »cyclops
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 4:11pmKudos to the observant passenger who saw what’s being viewed by the subject on his laptop. People need to think about the real victims; the children and yes we need to go after the perpetrators but the viewers are contributing to the further victimizing of innocent and helpless children, or they (viewers) could be perpetrators themselves and deserves to be in the slammer or agree to some of the thoughts here, castrated……..
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 3:49pmStinking pervert !!! Castrate him!
Report Post »lionshield
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 3:27pmwhy are police not arresting the magizine makers of this trash;beside just poor-horny-joe?!
Report Post »oldschoolgreen
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 4:16pmAdults doing what they want with their bodies is their choice. Its not about poor horney joe. Its about poor horney joe looking at images of children who are forced, tricked, whatever into doing these things. Besides this isn’t a guy in pocession of a magazine. He downloaded this stuff off the internet, there is no ‘publisher’ per say. Pretty hard to find the folks who put it on in the first place. They ARE prosecuted when they are finally tracked down. Just out of curiosity what would you do if you were sitting next to him and saw that stuff?
Report Post »BoldFreshJew
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 3:21pmPedophiles should be held communally until *Sport Saturday* when they’re then dropped, 1 by 1, into the single cage homes of the Criminally insane,
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 3:02pmSounds like he musta been hooked on it and couldn’t put it down from prying eyes.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 4:01pmThere are Weird definitions on what is Porn… and what offends one person, may not someone else. Some times it is even people looking at pictures of their children. So, I always hold off Judgment until all the facts are presented.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 2:50pmJC: If your eye offends you… then pluck it out!
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 4:10pmLUKERW
Report Post »You’re right. You know your Bible. Good post.
It is better for you to lose a part of your body, than to have all of it cast into h*ll.
thedub
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 2:46pmshoulda rolled down the window and tossed him out
Report Post »netmail
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 2:46pmA Chemistry Professor who spent too much time in the lab alone? Let‘s see if he gets fired immediately or if he’s protected and coddled by his peers. I think I know what to expect but am hoping for the best. (which is bad news for the perv)
Report Post »mrmikejohnson
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 2:45pmThat’s about as stupid as it gets. You‘re going to do an activity that’s going to get you 10 years in jail in full view of the public? This guy would have been better off smoking crack than looking at child porn. He’d probably get less than a year for the crack if it were his first offense.
Report Post »JoeySocal
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 2:41pmI hope it was actually “child” porn. Its a shame how many people get accused of these things when the images they’re looking at are really girls 18 or over. I see a lot of pictures that look like a girl could be 14 when she’s really 20. Hard to tell these days.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 2:52pmAll porn is disgusting . Granted child pron is by far the most perverted but make no mistake porn of any kind is in large part responsible for the country’s moral decay. You make some kind of distinction between actual children and women who look like children ,You might want to rethink your priorities. Lusting after women who look like children is the same thing.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 3:01pmAn interesting question. What if he was looking at pictures of adults specifically made to look like children? What if he THOUGHT he was looking at adults dressed like children? Since the Supreme Court has ruled that manufactured digital art representing children do not constitute pornography a lot of confusing grey area is involved in some pornography laws. I would be happier if it ALL was made illegal, and viewing it in public was treated as its own crime, like public indecency.
Those who MAKE child porn should be ground into dog food…slowly.
Report Post »BoldFreshJew
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 3:45pmRationalizing porn. #headdesk Get a clue.
Report Post »StopWhiningAlready
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 3:55pm@drattastic I disagree with you. We must remember that despite the fact that many on this website tend to be conservative, most proclaim to share the views of libertarians. Those who truly share the Libertarian view tend to believe porn to be no different than drugs or alcohol, homosexuality, abortion and many of the other items that “Social Conservatives” rally against. Pornography in and of itself is neither good nor evil. It’s simply a form of entertainment that some people get pleasure from and others revile against, like country music. Be careful how you choose to determine what should and should not be allowed.
Of course, Child Pornography is anathema to Libertarians as the children, unlike the adult performers who choose to be in that business, have no say in the matter.
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 4:56pm“Those who MAKE child porn should be ground into dog food…slowly.”
….Except…who would let their dog eat it?
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 6:02pmDogs aren’t picky what they eat. Only their owners are. So obviously I’m thinking of homeless dogs, the kind that are out in the street when you are thrown to them.
You’ve seen what they eat, I’m sure. They’ll happily wolf down some raw pornographer-patty, barf it up, wolf it down again, expel it out the other end, and then eat THAT. The biblical view of dogs is like that of young girls about boys, “They’re gross!” :-)
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 2:41pmToo bad he could not have been shown the door from fifteen thousand or so feet…no parachute.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 2:48pmAnother “professor” — what were the odds .. seems a lot of these pervs are either in government or government education. First class no less … .. I thought they were all “underpaid public servants”.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 2:58pmCatB — almost guarantee most if not all of these perps in government and the professors happen to be progressive socialists…almost guarantee it. They assume the rules apply to everyone else but them.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 3:47pm@SNOW …
Indeed!
Report Post »Jackie Rogers, Jr.
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 2:40pmI paraphrase dean Wormer:
Report Post »Dumb, horny and perverted is no way to travel on an airliner.
kentuckypatriot
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 2:39pmDisgusting. How stupid can you be if you think you won’t get turned in looking at this filth on a plane.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 2:55pmHow disgusting to look at that filth in the privacy of one’s home.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 2:39pmAnyone want to lay odds that he was a “liberal” professor. His defense will go something like this . “I was doing research for a book I was writing ”. Bet the ACLU is already cuing up a defense team for him.
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