{"id":375982,"date":"2026-08-19T22:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375982\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T22:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:14:44","slug":"broward-county-transit-employee-accused-of-possessing-child-sex-abuse-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375982\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward County Transit employee accused of possessing child sex abuse material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 19, 2026 at 5:31 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 19, 2026 at 5:47 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A Broward County Transit employee has been arrested on disturbing charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/19\/acusan-a-empleado-de-broward-county-transit-de-poseer-material-de-abuso-sexual-infantil\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/19\/acusan-a-empleado-de-broward-county-transit-de-poseer-material-de-abuso-sexual-infantil\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities took Charles Weiner, 44, of Oakland Park, into custody on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials identified him as an IT employee for Broward County Transit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Weiner is facing multiple charges of possession or control of child sex abuse material and a charge of compiling computer pornography featuring a minor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Following his arrest, Broward County Transit released the following statement to Local 10 News: <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph quote-box__text\">\u201cWe are aware that a Broward County Transit employee has been arrested by the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office in connection with alleged possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material. The employee did not have a public-facing role. We are fully cooperating with law enforcement and following the appropriate protocols regarding his future employment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Broward County Transit<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Wednesday afternoon, Weiner was being held at the Paul Rein Detention Facility on a $50,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"David Dwork\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3469fa6e-3c52-46d2-a0.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>David Dwork<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">David Dwork joined the WPLG Local 10 News team in August 2019. Born and raised in Miami-Dade County, David has covered South Florida sports since 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 19, 2026 at 5:31 PM Updated:\u00a0August 19, 2026 at 5:47 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A Broward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-375982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}