Man Charged In Best Buy Porn Case

Updated: March 16, 2012

The Greenville Police Department says officers have made an arrest in connection with a report of pornography that was displayed on an electronics store television.

Robert Matthew Holden is charged with disorderly conduct.

Holden is accused of using a personal electronic device to stream a pornographic video on a television on the sales floor at the Best Buy on Woodruff Road last month.

He turned himself in after a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Holden faces up to 30 days in jail or a $100 fine if convicted of the misdemeanor.

His arrest did not require a bond hearing.

Updated: March 8, 2012

Police in Greenville say they are looking for two people wanted for questioning in connection with a case where porn was displayed on a Best Buy display television last month.

Detectives have released surveillance photos of the man and woman considered to be persons of interest.

The male was seen in the Greenville store at the time of the offenses on February 11 and 12.  The female was seen only on the 12.

If you have any information that may help investigators, call 271 GCPD or 23-CRIME.

Posted: February 20, 2012

Best Buy's corporate office is apologizing for the incident that was apparently witnessed by numerous customers, including young children.

"It was extremely, extremely pornographic image," customer Gloria Berg says.  "I think even the word 'pornographic' doesn't cover it.  I have never watched pornography, so I don't know what else you can see there, but to me, I really felt extremely violated."

Berg was inside the store with her son and his children.  She says they were looking at the store's display of 55-inch screen smart televisions when a pornographic photo of a man and woman suddenly popped up.

She says the image stayed up for several minutes before the manager came over and took it down, and by then, several horrified families had seen it.

She says the manager told her someone had used the store's WI-FI to upload the image to the TV's.

She says the manager told her the same thing had happened the night before and there was nothing the store could do about it.

"They, like, brush it off like it's...who cares?  Nobody cares.  It's pornography.  And we are getting adjusted to that kind of mentality.  That's why we are losing our morals," Berg says.

Management at the Greenville Best Buy wouldn't talk to 7 On Your Side about the incident, so we called the corporate office, which sent us the following statement.

"Two individuals accessed our store's wireless signal to broadcast inappropriate content on a smart television display.  In both cases, we worked immediately to disable the inappropriate content.  We greatly apologize for this unfortunate incident and we are working to ensure that it does not happen again."   

Best buy would not tell us if it has identified the individuals behind this, and if so, if it will pursue criminal charges.

But the Berg family has filed a complaint with police for dissemination of pornographic material.

Greenville police say the case hasn't yet been assigned to an investigator, but it will be.

Officials say they would actually need to see the image that was on the TVs to determine if any state or local laws were violated.

They haven't yet contacted Best Buy to see if the image was saved.

7 On Your Side will keep you updated.