By KOIN 6 News staffPublished: Wednesday, April 24, 2013,
12:26 pm
Portland police officer Scott Edward Elliott will serve
federal prison time after he was caught in an undercover sting trying to lure
what he thought was a child in an online chat room. He was sentenced,
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 in U.S. District Court. (Multnomah County Detention
Center)
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A
Portland police officer will serve federal prison time after he was
caught in an undercover sting operation trying to lure what he thought was a
child in an online chat room.
Fifty-one-year-old Scott Edward Elliott, a 22-year-veteran
of the Portland Police Bureau, was sentenced in U.S. District Court Wednesday
to five years in prison. In November 2012, he plead guilty to one federal count
of receiving child pornography as part of a plea deal.
Elliott was arrested March 2012 after he was caught engaging
in sexual conversations with an undercover Multnomah County detective posing as
an underage girl. Prior to this, in the fall of 2009, he reportedly received
several images of child sexual abuse during a Yahoo chat session, according to
the district attorney’s office.
Following his arrest he was placed on paid administrative
leave, and eventually resigned in May 2012. According to Portland police,
Elliott worked for a time as part of the bureau’s Sex Offender Registration
Detail.
Elliott has remained lodged in the Multnomah County Jail
since his arrest. Following his release from prison, he will be required to
register as a sex offender.