Man charged after asking police to give back devices that contained child porn

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Columbia man was charged with several felonies after authorities claim he asked police to return electronic devices that contained child pornography.

Marcus Bremer, 45, is charged with five counts of child porn possession. He is also charged in a case from 2024 with five counts of child porn possession. A pretrial conference in that case is scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond.  

The probable cause statement says Bremer was at University Hospital’s Psychiatric Center on Aug. 12, 2024, for a 96-hour hold and someone found child porn on hard drives he brought to the center. The devices were then given to law enforcement.

Bremer allegedly called law enforcement multiple times from Aug. 14-24, 2024, to ask for the devices back, the statement says.

Police noted in the probable cause statement there were hundreds of images of child porn on multiple devices.