Man arrested for viewing child porn on Mount Pleasant Walmart computer
Isabella County Sheriff’s Department arrested a man on April 9 for viewing child pornography on display computers a Walmart on Blue Grass Road in Mount Pleasant.
The store reported that someone had been using one of their demo computers for hours at a time, over the course of a few days on March, 29, 30, 31 and April 1.
Walmart reviewed its security footage and traced the activity to 38-year-old Timothy David Powers, a registered sex offender in Michigan.
A warrant was filed, and Powers was taken into custody on April 9 on two counts of possession of child sexually abusive material, with bond set at $20,000 for each.
Upon inspection, there was pornographic images found on the computer, some of which contained subjects that were under the age of 18.
The Sheriff’s department took the computer to conduct a forensic download search and they found several pornographic sites had been visited, some of which included child pornographic images, said Isabella County Sheriff Mike Main.
Powers' next court date is at 8:15 a.m. on April 19.
