Broward Child Porn Suspect Did Searches On Parkland Shooting, Eyed Other School As Target

[Sugar Cookie]

In September, a 21-year-old man was arrested after using his cellular phone to take videos of an unclothed woman in a dressing room at a mall in Broward County.

Vinh S. Nguyen was charged with “video voyeurism,” a third-degree felony, and pleaded not guilty. But then the Plantation Police Department obtained a search warrant to take a look at the downloads on his Samsung Galaxy phone.

Investigators found 16 videos of child pornography involving infants and female children ages 5 to 15. Also on the phone were instructions on how to frighten young female victims online, court records show.

If those images weren’t disturbing enough, a Plantation detective and the FBI would make another troubling discovery after obtaining a warrant in mid-February to examine Nguyen’s searches on his Google accounts. And it wasn’t just files of 13 more child-porn videos.

According to federal court records, Nguyen was using Google to search for crime scene photos of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, which took the lives of 17 students and staff on Feb. 14, 2018. Nguyen also did online searches for Nikolas Cruz, a former student at the Parkland high school who attacked the school with an assault rifle. Nguyen also searched for local gun ranges and directions from his family’s home in Margate to Harbordale Elementary School — a Fort Lauderdale school to which he had no connection, according to court records and testimony.

“Accordingly, the defendant constitutes a danger to the community,” Magistrate Judge Lurana Snow found in a detention order filed Friday. The judge did not find Nguyen was a risk of flight, despite trips to Vietnam to visit a grandparent, because he’s a native of South Florida and has close ties here.

Nguyen, who was arrested by FBI agents on Feb. 25 and charged with possessing child porn with intent to view it, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment last week. He faces up to 20 years in prison. His lawyer, Robert Berube with the Federal Public Defender’s Office, declined to comment.

Nguyen was not charged in connection with his Google searches related to the mass shooting in Parkland.

Court records show that Nguyen had been free on a $7,500 bond in the state voyeurism case for about five months before the FBI brought him into custody in the federal child-porn case.

https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/crime/article241233951.html

 

[Sejanus]

That boy ain't right in the brain.
Crack his skull open and check on the gerbil.

 

[Ramona the brave]

Huh. Well, one positive of this social distancing thing, it's going to be really hard for bozos like this to commit mass shootings.

 

[redboner]

“...INSTRUCTIONS on how to frighten young women online.”

Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Name: VINH SANH NGUYEN
Register Number: 26220-104
Age: 27
Race: Asian
Sex: Male
Release Date: 08/20/2034
Located At: FCI Marianna