LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 A former YouTuber is being held in Las Vegas after California authorities filed several charges of sex crimes against him.<\/p>\n
Records show Bryant Turhanemmerson Moreland, 35, was booked into Clark County Detention Center on Wednesday. He is scheduled to appear for a hearing in Las Vegas Justice Court on Monday, Nov. 9.<\/p>\n
The Kern County District Attorney’s Office in Bakersfield, California, said it filed a criminal complaint against Moreland, also known as EDP445.<\/p>\n
He faces charges of attempt to commit a lewd act upon a child, meeting a minor for lewd purposes, contacting a minor with intent to commit sexual offense, and distributing or showing pornography to a minor.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors in Kern County said they began an extensive investigation into Moreland based on statements made in a documentary called “The Sick Mind of EDP445,” which was released on YouTube in August.<\/p>\n
The charges stem from a 2021 incident involving a child under 14 years old. The D.A.’s office reviewed the incident in 2021 and 2022 but said they could not pursue charges at the time, particularly because of a lack of cooperation from the reporting parties.<\/p>\n
Moreland’s comments in the documentary led prosecutors and sheriff’s investigators to reopen the case, and the D.A.’s office determined the new evidence met the evidentiary threshold for filing criminal charges.<\/p>\n
An arraignment hearing will be scheduled after Moreland is extradited to Kern County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 A former YouTuber is being held in Las Vegas after California authorities filed several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-520134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520134","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=520134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}