Date: March 23, 2007
Cruise Bruise: Child Porngraphy
Bruise Location: San Francisco, California
Age: 32
Home Town: Thailand
Cruise Line: Unknown
Ship: Unknown
Details:
A cruise ship employee has been charged in federal court with possessing child pornography after customs agents said they found sexually explicit videos in his luggage after he flew into San Francisco International Airport from Thailand, court records show.
Charkon Chansaem age 32, arrived at the airport about 9:15 a.m PST. Friday, March 23, 2007, aboard a United Airlines flight from Tokyo Narita airport in Japan.
Chansaem entered the United States on a visa for "seamen working on cruise ships," Senior Special Agent Brian Kawabata of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement wrote in an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Chansaem's employer wasn't identified in the court documents.
Chansaem cleared customs and exited the federal inspection area without his luggage, authorities said.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialist received unclaimed luggage from the United flight and discovered illegal food items and DVDs and CD-ROMs with suspected pornography featuring children as young as 6 years old, the affidavit said.
Chansaem later identified the luggage as his, and said he knew there was child pornography in it and says he knew that child pornography was illegal in the United States.
"I got porn child but I swear never have sex with another children," Chansaem said, according to the affidavit.
Charkon Chansaem
Cruise Ship Crew Member Arrested For Kiddie Porn
March 23, 2007
