PUNTA GORDA, Fla.–A captain with the Polk County Fire Station was arrested on Aug. 7 on more than 25 counts of possession of child pornography at the fire station where he was on duty.
At the time of his arrest, Brian Steger, 40, told deputies that he had set up an internet account in his name at the station for “personal use.”
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office, acting on a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, responded to the Lake Wales fire station where Steger was on duty. When detectives located his computer they found he was “actively downloading porn files” that contained depictions of children “as young at five years old being sexually assaulted,” according to police reports….