A LaPorte man is accused of making child pornography and explosives. Eric R. Weiler, 45, was charged in a six-count indictment before a South Bend District Grand Jury, according to U.S. Attorney Thomas Kirsch.
Court documents say that on August 23, 2017, one of Weiler’s neighbors discovered that someone had run wires to their car’s gas tank. Then on September 18, investigators say they learned that Weiler had been going into a vacant house in the area. When they went to investigate, they reportedly found writings on the walls about trying to find a girl under the age of 12, but ideally a newborn baby, for sexual contact.
Two days later, officers found two explosives in Weiler’s house, according to Kirsch. One was allegedly an improvised explosive device, while the other was a CO₂ “cricket bomb.” A day after that, several electronic storage devices were reportedly found in Weiler’s house.
Kirsch says some of them contained more than 24,000 images and over 80 videos of child pornography. Some of the videos allegedly showed Weiler engaging in sexual acts with a child under the age of 12, while others allegedly showed him explaining the explosive placed in the gas tank of the car.
Kirsch says Weiler was charged with receipt of child pornography, possession of child pornography, making a destructive device in violation of the National Firearms Act, possession of unregistered destructive devices, and two counts of production of child pornography.
