Ex-university worker is arrested on suspicion of possessing child porn

SANTA CLARA >> South Bay authorities on Monday arrested a former Santa Clara University maintenance worker on suspicion of possessing child pornography, after a makeshift room with sex toys was found at the college earlier this year, police said.

The room was set up in a basement maintenance shop and brought to the attention of college administrators in early October, the Santa Clara Police Department said in a news release.

“There was a mattress and various sex toys in the makeshift room,” police said.

College administrators determined that a maintenance worker, identified as 49-yearold San Jose resident Jason Cameron Brown, had set up the room, police said.

The college reported the incident to police and turned over a laptop computer belonging to Brown. A forensic analysis revealed that the hard drive contained child pornography, police said.

At 6:45 a.m. Monday, investigators arrested Brown and served a search warrant at his residence, police said.

Brown is being held at the Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas on $500,000 bail and is slated to appear in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Wednesday, according to jail records. In a statement, the university confirmed Brown had been terminated but declined to say when he was fired or how long he had worked there.

“This is a police matter involving an individual who is no longer employed at Santa Clara University,” the university said.