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The estranged brother of the Las Vegas massacre gunman Stephen Paddock was arrested Wednesday on child pornography charges, law enforcement sources said.

Bruce Paddock, 58, was detained at a Los Angeles assisted-living facility, where he was awaiting surgery for spinal stenosis. A felony complaint said he had over 600 explicit images of minors in 2014 and had also swapped pornography.

He faces 19 counts of sexual exploitation of a child and one count of possession of child pornography, the complaint says.

An attorney who Paddock said had represented him in criminal matters in the past told NBC News he is no longer representing Paddock and declined to comment.

Image: Stephen Paddock
Stephen Paddock killed 58 people in Las Vegas. Now his brother Bruce is in custody on an unrelated matter. U.S. Government / via NBC News
At the time of the mass shooting on Oct. 1 that left 58 dead, Bruce Paddock told NBC News that he had not been in touch with his brother Stephen for 10 years and had no idea why the professional gambler would have opened fire on music festival attendees from his room at the Mandalay Bay.

"I don't know how he could stoop to this low point, hurting someone else. It wasn't suicide by cop since he killed himself," he said at the time. "He killed a bunch of people and then killed himself so he didn't have to face whatever it was."

It was Bruce Paddock who revealed that their father was a bank robber who once made the FBI's most-wanted list and was judged by authorities to be "psychopathic" with "suicidal tendencies."

Image: Benjamin Paddocks
Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, father of Bruce and Stephen Paddock, was a bank robber on the FBI most wanted list. FBI / Wayne Eastburn / The Register-Guard via AP file
But he insisted that his brother wasn't "mentally deranged" and noted that Stephen had never been in trouble with the law like he had.

Court records show Bruce Paddock has a criminal record stretching back to the 1980s, with convictions for vandalism, criminal threats, theft and driving with a suspended vehicle and other arrests for which he was not convicted.

Paddock was annoyed that his brother's monstrous crime had brought attention to his own misdeeds, which he described as "minor." He had to scramble to pay a fine after it was reported that there was an active warrant for his arrest from a vandalism case in which he had failed to perform community service.

"I'm not proud of it," he said. "But I never went to prison."

FBI agents visited him twice after the shooting, he said, and were mostly interested in his brother's childhood.

In the days after the Vegas carnage, Paddock frantically tried to reconnect with members of his fractured family, leaving messages for another brother Eric and reaching out to the attorney for Stephen's girlfriend, Marilu Danley.

"I want to see if we could patch up what we destroyed so many years ago," he said. He added that he had only succeeded in reaching his elderly mother, "and she's yelling at me all the time not to talk to anyone."

Earlier this week, Paddock said he was concerned about the fate of his brother's remains and had reached out to the coroner's office in Nevada to see if he could claim them.

Brentos » 25 Oct 2017 17:21 wrote:

MacCruiskeen » Wed Oct 25, 2017 12:14 pm wrote:

Las Vegas shooter's laptop missing its hard drive
By JACK DATE MIKE LEVINE PIERRE THOMAS
Oct 25, 2017, 12:15 PM ET

A laptop computer recovered from the Las Vegas hotel room where Stephen Paddock launched the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was missing its hard drive, depriving investigators of a potential key source of information on why he killed and maimed so many people, ABC News has learned. ...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/las-vegas-shoo ... d=50709285

"depriving"

Weird. From the above article.... talk about normalization...

In 2007, Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung Hui removed the hard drive of his computer and disposed of his cell phone shortly before the massacre. Authorities even searched a pond for the missing digital media, but the devices were never recovered.

The 2008 Northern Illinois shooter, Steven Kazmierczak, removed the SIM card from his phone and the hard drive from his laptop, and neither was recovered.

In 2012, Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza had removed the hard drive from his computer and smashed it with a hammer or screwdriver.


Maybe there is a good reason for someone planning a suicide mission to do this?

Blue » 25 Oct 2017 17:54 wrote:Vegas Gunman Stephen Paddock’s Brother Arrested in Child Porn Probe

eta another link: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ve ... be-n811461

The estranged brother of the Las Vegas massacre gunman Stephen Paddock was arrested Wednesday on child pornography charges, law enforcement sources said.

Bruce Paddock, 58, was detained at a Los Angeles assisted-living facility, where he was awaiting surgery for spinal stenosis. A felony complaint said he had over 600 explicit images of minors in 2014 and had also swapped pornography.

He faces 19 counts of sexual exploitation of a child and one count of possession of child pornography, the complaint says.

An attorney who Paddock said had represented him in criminal matters in the past told NBC News he is no longer representing Paddock and declined to comment.

Image: Stephen Paddock
Stephen Paddock killed 58 people in Las Vegas. Now his brother Bruce is in custody on an unrelated matter. U.S. Government / via NBC News
At the time of the mass shooting on Oct. 1 that left 58 dead, Bruce Paddock told NBC News that he had not been in touch with his brother Stephen for 10 years and had no idea why the professional gambler would have opened fire on music festival attendees from his room at the Mandalay Bay.

"I don't know how he could stoop to this low point, hurting someone else. It wasn't suicide by cop since he killed himself," he said at the time. "He killed a bunch of people and then killed himself so he didn't have to face whatever it was."

It was Bruce Paddock who revealed that their father was a bank robber who once made the FBI's most-wanted list and was judged by authorities to be "psychopathic" with "suicidal tendencies."

Image: Benjamin Paddocks
Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, father of Bruce and Stephen Paddock, was a bank robber on the FBI most wanted list. FBI / Wayne Eastburn / The Register-Guard via AP file
But he insisted that his brother wasn't "mentally deranged" and noted that Stephen had never been in trouble with the law like he had.

Court records show Bruce Paddock has a criminal record stretching back to the 1980s, with convictions for vandalism, criminal threats, theft and driving with a suspended vehicle and other arrests for which he was not convicted.

Paddock was annoyed that his brother's monstrous crime had brought attention to his own misdeeds, which he described as "minor." He had to scramble to pay a fine after it was reported that there was an active warrant for his arrest from a vandalism case in which he had failed to perform community service.

"I'm not proud of it," he said. "But I never went to prison."

FBI agents visited him twice after the shooting, he said, and were mostly interested in his brother's childhood.

In the days after the Vegas carnage, Paddock frantically tried to reconnect with members of his fractured family, leaving messages for another brother Eric and reaching out to the attorney for Stephen's girlfriend, Marilu Danley.

"I want to see if we could patch up what we destroyed so many years ago," he said. He added that he had only succeeded in reaching his elderly mother, "and she's yelling at me all the time not to talk to anyone."

Earlier this week, Paddock said he was concerned about the fate of his brother's remains and had reached out to the coroner's office in Nevada to see if he could claim them.

Brentos » 25 Oct 2017 20:12 wrote:Yeah, even weirder, is that the laptop with the removed hard drive, was in the Vegas room with him, but no sign of a hard drive. It looks like the story of his brother Bruce being a pedo, came out at the same time as this missing HD story, or just thereafter. It's possible that Paddock did have something personal so incriminating on his HD, that even though he was likely going to kill himself, he had to hide it? Is this being insinuated? But, why have the laptop in the room at all without the HD? The laptop is pretty much useless without the HD, unless he was booting off of USB or another means. As mentioned in another news article, other alleged lone nut suicidal shooters in the past have felt the need to hide their hard drives and sim cards before setting off on suicide missions. The other scenario, is that someone else removed it for a reason.

stickdog99 » 26 Oct 2017 12:43 wrote:

Brentos » 25 Oct 2017 20:12 wrote:Yeah, even weirder, is that the laptop with the removed hard drive, was in the Vegas room with him, but no sign of a hard drive. It looks like the story of his brother Bruce being a pedo, came out at the same time as this missing HD story, or just thereafter. It's possible that Paddock did have something personal so incriminating on his HD, that even though he was likely going to kill himself, he had to hide it? Is this being insinuated? But, why have the laptop in the room at all without the HD? The laptop is pretty much useless without the HD, unless he was booting off of USB or another means. As mentioned in another news article, other alleged lone nut suicidal shooters in the past have felt the need to hide their hard drives and sim cards before setting off on suicide missions. The other scenario, is that someone else removed it for a reason.

LOL. Really? So how was Paddock watching his security cameras with a laptop with a missing HD? LOL. Come on! Sure, that's the ticket!

KITV Moanikeala Nabarro:

Our station stands behind our story but he’s been bombarded with calls from media and wanted story taken off web site. We respected his wishes October 10 at 12:04pm

https://www.facebook.com/KITVMoanikeala ... 22R2%22%7D

stickdog99 » 25 Oct 2017 05:32 wrote:

Spook » 25 Oct 2017 03:55 wrote:This guy apparently just turned up murdered.
http://www.nnettle.com/features/1200-ho ... many-bags-

A valet worker from the Mandalay Bay hotel, who parked the suspected Las Vegas shooting gunman's car, has mysteriously vanished after giving an interview saying Stephen Paddock was a "normal guy" who "didn't have many bags".

Read more at: http://www.nnettle.com/features/1200-ho ... -many-bags

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=159902

Missing Las Vegas Shooting Witness Shot Dead

After checking, the last two links appear to be 100% clickbait disinfo. That still doesn't explain why KITV-4 removed the innocuous story in which Chad claimed that Paddock was just a regular guy without many bags.

Here it is on web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20171003084 ... ooters-car

Now it is back on KITV's website:

http://www.kitv.com/story/36505487/hawa ... ooters-car

I can tell you for a fact that this story was deleted when I first checked on it a couple of weeks ago. Hmmm, was this all just a stupid, meaningless no-honey honeypot?

Brentos » Thu Oct 26, 2017 5:30 pm wrote: Following all possibilities, a plausible scenario is that the HD was removed by someone else, and perhaps the public are being given a cover story. Someone who didnt want that security footage and/or other information that might be saved on the HD, to be scrutinized?

82_28 » Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:37 am wrote:If he removed the HD and used the laptop to monitor the cameras and stuff did they find a live boot CD/DVD or live USB laying around anywhere? That shit still needs drivers. And/or what OS did it try to boot into -- what boot loader was there?