A former private detective from Monona was charged Tuesday with13 counts of possessing child pornography and was downloading morewhen police showed up at his home on Thursday, according to acriminal complaint.
William T. Custer, 54, was using an Internet peer-to-peernetwork to download child pornography when police arrived with asearch warrant, so he hid his laptop computer under a sofa cushionas investigators from the state Division of Criminal Investigationentered his home on Arrowhead Drive, according to a criminalcomplaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court.
One of the agents found the computer in the sofa, the complaintstates.
Custer told the agents that he initially started using thepeer-to-peer networks to download music but happened upon childpornography about two years ago and continued to download thematerial, visiting a network called Frostwire every day "just tosee what they have," the complaint states.
"I knew I was playing with fire," Custer told agents, thecomplaint states. "I have a lot of time on my hands."
Custer was released on a signature bond after appearing in courtTuesday.
Custer was a licensed private detective, operating MadisonInvestigations from 1994 to 2006 and again for about six months in2008, according to records from the state Department of Regulationand Licensing. Records indicate he did not renew his license afterit was suspended in September 2008 for violations of Wisconsinadministrative laws.
State agents routinely monitor peer-to-peer networks looking fordownloads of child pornography by Wisconsin residents. They usedata from the networks to find the Internet account holders and toobtain search warrants for homes where child porn 
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