Crime & Safety
Ex-TV News Reporter Charged With Child Porn Possession In South Jersey
Cleve Bryan, a South Jersey resident, worked for CBS Philadelphia from 2013-20.
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, NJ — A former broadcast-news reporter who lives in South Jersey possessed child pornography, police said.
Cleve Bryan, of Sewell, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child. He was arrested Wednesday following an investigation from Washington Township detectives and the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office's High Tech Crimes Unit.
Officials placed Bryan in the Salem County Correctional Facility, pending a court appearance.
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Anyone with additional information or "concerns in the interest of public safety" can contact Sgt. Mike Ferris or Sgt. Josh Bradford in the Washington Township Police Department's Detective Bureau at 856-589-0330.
Bryan worked for CBS Philadelphia from 2013-20, serving as a senior reporter and the station's South Jersey bureau chief, according to his LinkedIn profile. ViacomCBS, the station's parent company, laid him off in 2020 during a nationwide staff reduction that impacted about 400 jobs.
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He was also a reporter and anchor for the now-defunct NBC40 News in Atlantic County from 2005-08, followed by stints at stations in South Carolina and Virginia.
Since mid-2020, Bryan has been a self-employed media consultant, according to his LinkedIn page.
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