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Quote:Las Vegas shooter's younger brother Bruce Paddock, 59, is arrested after police find more thanSOURCE:
600 images of child pornography on his computer.
*Bruce Paddock, 59, was taken into custody at a North Hollywood, California assisted living home on Wednesday
*He is the brother of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock
*Police had been investigating Bruce for child porn since before the shooting
*After the massacre, they received a tip about Bruce's whereabouts
'A brother of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock has been arrested for child pornography.
Bruce Paddock, 59, was arrested Wednesday morning at 8:40am at an assisted living home in North Hollywood,
California.
Bruce Paddock.
Bruce had been under investigation for child porn since before the October 1 shooting, but officials didn't know
where he was living. Police found more than 600 child pornography images on his computer, which was left behind
in a Sun Valley auto repair shop where he squatted in 2014. But after he was evicted he disappeared and police
had been searching for him ever since.
After the shooting, they got a tip about Bruce's whereabouts and tracked him down to the assisted living center,
where he was awaiting surgery for spinal stenosis. Aerial footage from the scene on Wednesday showed Bruce
in a wheelchair.
A joint task force that included the FBI and LAPD made the arrest.
According to the 20-page criminal complaint, Bruce faces one count of possession of more than 600 images
of child pornography and 19 counts of sexual exploitation of a child.
Police say the crimes happened between January 1, 2014 and August 30, 2014.
The LAPD released Bruce's mugshot 'in case there may be victims of unreported incidents'.
They say his arrest has nothing to do with the Las Vegas shooting.
Bruce is being held on $60,000 bail.
TMZ previously reported that Bruce lives a 'nomadic life' and has a long criminal history including convictions
for petty theft and vandalism. Bruce also threatened to murder a property owner in 2014, while he was squatting
at a home in the San Fernando Valley.
The home owner, Hector Cruz, told KTLA that Bruce was a longtime friend and he was going through a hard time
that year when he asked to come over to his auto shop to fix his car.
Instead, he ended up squatting in the attic of the business and soon became a nuisance to workers.
Cruz said that when he found out Bruce was tampering with machinery and equipmen, the man snapped.
He said Bruce got into a fighting stance with clenched fists and told him 'If you keep f****** with me I am going to
kill you and drop you in the desert.'
On another occasion, he brought a gas canister up into the attic and threatened to set the auto shop on fire.
'He told me he was going to kill me,' Cruz said.
Cruz described Bruce as a drug user, who sold meth and weed.
Cruz was eventually able to get a retraining order and Bruce fled the shop, leaving his computer with the damning
images behind...'
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