English Teacher Yongda Huang Harris in Custody for Possessing Harmful Items and Child Porn
A federal court has ordered the man accused of having a smoke grenade and other suspicious objects in his luggage at Los Angeles International Airport remain detained, citing concerns he poses a flight risk and troubling contents found on his personal computer.
Law enforcement sources said, searched his luggage and found a smoke grenade -- a prohibited item on an airplane -- and other items including handcuffs, a hatchet, body bags, billy clubs and a bio-hazard suit.
Harris is charged with transporting a hazardous material --the smoke grenade -- and faces up to five years in prison.
Though having all of these items and the gear he was wearing was suspicious enough, it was what they found on his computer that is even more disturbing.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Melissa Mills told the court that pornography of a disturbing nature was found on Harris' computer, some of it a type of Japanese anime depicting the torture of young children. Other pornography included live action video clips with titles such as "School Girls in Cement."
Harris worked as an English teacher at a Japanese middle school and had regular access to children.
Though investigators have found no criminal history or violent tendencies, they are troubled by his writings about murder, kidnapping, torture and "man trapping" on Harris' laptop. The computer files contained research materials about date rape drugs, Japanese school schedules and remote locations near schools.
Harris' attorney described his client as a loner who was returning to Massachusetts to attend the funeral of his stepfather, who died days before. He also added Harris only carried those items because of thoughts of past abuse in his neighborhood back home.
Read more at ABC News
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