The first-ever child pornography suspect named to the FBI's Most Wanted list cashed out his life savings and was fleeing law enforcement on a bus traveling across Montana last year when another passenger noticed child pornography on his laptop screen.
When the bus stopped in Billings, the passenger confronted Eric Franklin Rosser. Rosser, a former keyboardist for John Mellencamp, was arrested. He pleaded guilty last week to accessing the internet to view child pornography.
Prosecutors said Rosser was carrying more than $70,000 in cash and marijuana. Officials wouldn't disclose his destination.
FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2002 file photo Eric Franklin Rosser talks to reporters after the extradition order outside a criminal courtroom in Bangkok. Rosser, now 66, pleaded guilty on Oct. 9 to watching child pornography on a laptop computer as he traveled through Montana by bus. He fled Washington state where he was charged with violating the terms of his supervised release in the Indiana case. Rosser faces at least 10 years in prison when he is sentenced on Jan 10. (AP PhotoApichart Weerawong,File)
Rosser, 66, said he fled Washington state because he faced the revocation of his supervised release for a 2003 child porn conviction with roots in Thailand and Indiana.
He now faces at least 10 years in prison.
