Ex-Detroit Weatherman Gets Jail For Child Porn

DETROIT, MI — A former Detroit television meteorologist will serve three years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree possession of child pornography. Justin Goldstein, a WJBK TV (Channel 2) weather forecaster until 2009, will do time in a Connecticut state prison. He negotiated a plea deal in March.

Known as “Justin Ryan” during his Detroit Fox 2 days, Goldstein was busted last summer, the Detroit Free Press reported. Investigators from the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations and Hamden, Conn., police were involved in a child pornography investigation in June 2016 when they discovered suspected child pornographic files downloaded on an account linked to Goldstein, according to a criminal information filed in the case.

In July, they used a search warrant to seize computers from his Hamden, Conn., home, which contained the illegal material, the newspaper reported. In the plea deal, the 34-year old Goldstein agreed to serve three years in prison and 10 years probation, the Free Press reported.

Goldstein was working at WTNH-TV in New Haven at the time of his arrest. In addition to Detroit, Goldstein also worked in Philadelphia, Toledo and Charleston/Huntington, W. Va.

Photo courtesy of the Connecticut State Police