{"id":518810,"date":"2026-11-04T23:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T23:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/518810\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T23:10:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T23:10:53","slug":"charges-filed-against-youtuber-after-comments-made-on-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/518810\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges filed against YouTuber after comments made on documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD \u2014 The Kern County District Attorney&#8217;s Office has filed a criminal complaint against Bryant Moreland following an investigation into statements he made in the documentary The Sick Mind of EDP445.<\/p>\n<p>On November 2, Moreland was charged with:<\/p>\n<p>Attempting to commit lewd acts upon a childMeeting a minor for lewd purposesContacting a minor with intent to commit a sexual offenseDistributing or showing pornography to a minor<\/p>\n<p>The charges stem from an alleged incident involving a child under the age of 14 that occurred on April 17, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>When the Kern County District Attorney&#8217;s Office initially reviewed the incident in 2021 and 2022, officials said there were challenges in pursuing prosecution because of a lack of cooperation from the reporting parties.<\/p>\n<p>According to the District Attorney&#8217;s Office, Moreland&#8217;s comments in the documentary prompted investigators to reopen the case.<\/p>\n<p>On November 4, 2026, with assistance from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Moreland was located in Las Vegas, arrested, and taken into custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD \u2014 The Kern County District Attorney&#8217;s Office has filed a criminal complaint against Bryant Moreland following an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-518810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}