前YouTube网红EDP445在拉斯维加斯被捕：加州克恩县检方提起四项重罪指控
据克恩县地方检察官办公室的声明与多家媒体报道，以「EDP445」之名走红的前 YouTube 创作者 Bryant Moreland 已于11月4日在内华达州拉斯维加斯被捕。加利福尼亚州克恩县检方11月2日对他提起四项重罪指控，指控源于2021年克恩县贝克斯菲尔德市（Bakersfield）的一起民间诱局事件：他被指与一个自称13岁的账号联系，并赴约前往见面地点。
四项指控包括：试图对14岁以下儿童实施猥亵行为、前往与未成年人约定的见面地点、以实施性犯罪为目的联系未成年人，以及发送以引诱未成年人为目的的色情内容。这一指控清单由 TMZ 取得的法庭文件以及贝克斯菲尔德当地电视台 KGET 等多家媒体的报道一致列出。据报道，Moreland 被捕时有拉斯维加斯警方协助，他将被移送回克恩县受审，引渡程序预计在接下来数周内进行。
克恩县地方检察官办公室在声明中表示，鉴于 Moreland 在今年一部纪录片中作出的陈述，该办公室与克恩县警长办公室重启了调查，在复核新证据后认定已经达到提起刑事指控的证据门槛。检方同时说明，2021年的调查当时一度停滞，原因是报案一方没有配合调查。
事件要回溯到2021年4月。民间团体 Predator Poachers 安排一名成年人假扮13岁女孩与 Moreland 在网上联系；Moreland 来到贝克斯菲尔德东部的 Pineridge Apartment Complex 后被当场对质，相关视频随后在网上疯传。他在现场称自己只是来取一个杯子蛋糕，这起事件因此被网友称作「cupcake」事件。他的 YouTube 频道随后被平台移除，当时检方没有提出指控。
2026年，导演 Mike Clum 的纪录片《The Sick Mind of EDP445》重新回访这一事件。Moreland 在片中接受《To Catch a Predator》主持人 Chris Hansen 访谈时承认，他那天到场就是为了与一名未成年女孩见面。Hansen 表示，正是这些镜头前的陈述给了检方申请逮捕令所需的信息。Clum 表示，该片的收益将捐给反性暴力组织 RAINN。
Moreland 早年以费城老鹰队为主题的激动咆哮类视频走红，频道一度拥有数百万订阅者。目前，引渡与后续庭审的具体日期尚未公布；他在被法庭判定有罪之前，依法被推定无罪。
Former YouTuber EDP445 Arrested in Las Vegas: Charged With Four Felonies in Kern County, California
Former YouTube creator Bryant Moreland, better known as EDP445, was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 4, according to a statement from the Kern County District Attorney's Office and multiple news reports. Prosecutors in Kern County, California, filed four felony charges against him on November 2, stemming from a 2021 civilian sting in Bakersfield, Kern County, in which he allegedly contacted an account presenting itself as a 13-year-old and traveled to an arranged meeting.
The four charges are attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14, going to an arranged meeting with a minor, contacting a minor with intent to commit a sexual offense, and sending pornography with intent to seduce a minor. The list appears consistently in court documents obtained by TMZ and in reporting by Bakersfield station KGET and other outlets. Moreland was taken into custody with assistance from Las Vegas police and will be transported back to Kern County, with extradition proceedings expected in the coming weeks.
In its statement, the Kern County District Attorney's Office said that, in light of statements Moreland made in a documentary this year, the office and the Kern County Sheriff's Office reopened the investigation and, after reviewing the new evidence, determined that the evidentiary threshold for filing criminal charges had been met. Prosecutors also said the 2021 investigation had stalled because the reporting parties did not cooperate.
The case dates to April 2021, when the civilian group Predator Poachers arranged for an adult decoy posing as a 13-year-old girl to communicate with Moreland online. Moreland arrived at the Pineridge Apartment Complex in east Bakersfield and was confronted on camera, in footage that spread widely online. He said at the scene that he was only there to pick up a cupcake, and the episode became known online as the cupcake incident. His YouTube channels were later removed, and no charges were filed at the time.
In 2026, director Mike Clum's documentary The Sick Mind of EDP445 revisited the case. In an interview with To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen, Moreland acknowledged that he had shown up that day intending to meet an underage girl. Hansen said those on-camera statements gave prosecutors the information they needed to seek an arrest warrant. Clum has said proceeds from the film will be donated to RAINN, an anti-sexual-violence organization.
Moreland first built a following of millions of subscribers with exuberant rant videos about the Philadelphia Eagles. No dates for extradition or further court proceedings have been announced, and Moreland is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.
来源：克恩县地方检察官办公室
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