The anti-ICE rioter who allegedly sank his tooth into federal regulation enforcement officers throughout a protest at Delaney Corridor final week was beforehand accused of distributing little one pornography.
The New Jersey US Lawyer’s Workplace charged Brendan John Geier, 26, with assaulting federal officers and inflicting bodily harm, for allegedly “kicking and biting” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers exterior the Newark detention middle, leaving them with “horrific wounds,” based on appearing Lawyer Common Todd Blanche.
Geier, of Madison, NJ, was beforehand charged with sexual abuse of kids associated to the dissemination and possession of kid pornography, the Justice Division confirmed to The Submit.
Berks County (Pa.) Detectives started investigating Geier after receiving a tip about suspected little one porn being uploaded by way of Skype from the Nationwide Heart for Lacking and Exploited Youngsters in September 2018, based on the county district attorneys workplace.
Investigators linked seven digital photos of suspected little one pornography to an IP tackle belonging to Geier, who was then a 19-year-old pupil at Kutztown College.
Authorities later discovered “quite a few digital photos of suspected little one pornography” on a laptop computer and iPhone seized from Geier’s dorm room, the DA mentioned on the time.
Second-degree felony little one porn fees have been filed in opposition to Geier on March 12, 2019. He was set free of jail on a $25,000 bail, court docket information present.
In 2021, Geier pleaded responsible to a lesser, third-degree felony cost of legal use of a communication facility.
He was sentenced to 2 years probation, ordered to have “no contact with anybody below the age of 18” and endure “intercourse offender analysis and remedy.”
Geier describes himself as a “shut in” with “high-functioning autism” who enjoys “spending most of his time alone in his room,” in a web site he created in 2024 which is essentially dedicated to Japanese animation and rock music.
He faces a most of 20 years behind bars and $250,000 high quality if convicted of the assault cost.
An legal professional listed for Geier didn’t instantly reply to The Submit’s request for remark.
“As alleged within the Justice Division’s criticism, this violent rioter savagely bit an ICE regulation enforcement officer exterior of Delaney Corridor,” Homeland Safety Secretary Markwayne Mullin mentioned in an announcement. “The Trump Administration will all the time stand with our regulation enforcement officers.
“Anybody who assaults a regulation enforcement officer will likely be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the regulation.”
Geier appeared earlier than Justice of the Peace Decide Cari Fais on Friday and was launched with location monitoring, a curfew and prohibited from returning to Delaney Corridor, based on the DOJ.
“This defendant’s court docket look is a transparent step towards justice after 21 people have been arrested for assaulting federal officers at Delaney Corridor from Could 26-29,” ICE’s Enforcement and Removing Operations’ Newark appearing Discipline Workplace Director Arthur Wilson Jr., mentioned in an announcement.
“As a substitute of peacefully protesting, rioters blocked ICE officers conducting their lawful duties, ignored repeated lawful instructions and threatened violence,” Wilson Jr. continued. “Our courageous ICE officers risked their lives to guard everybody current inside and outside of Delaney Corridor and we are going to proceed to pursue fees in opposition to agitators and guarantee violent offenders have actual penalties.”
