Girlfriend helped Brooklyn cop make child porn: Feds

The girlfriend of a Brooklyn cop  charged with making child pornography has been charged herself with being his pervy co-producer, authorities said Wednesday. Collette Robertson, 45, a home health aide for the venerable Children's Aid Society, admitted she took sexually explicit photos of naked young girls with a cell phone given to her by co-defendant Alberto Yard.More than 2,000 pictures and more than 50 videos characterized as child pornography was seized from his home.

Officer, wife charged with child pornography waive detention hearings

A Kannapolis police officer and his wife who are charged with possessing and distributing child pornography waived their detention hearings today, electing to stay in jail rather than argue for bond.

Steven and Tracy Webb appeared in federal court in Charlotte. They are each charged with receiving, possessing and distributing child pornography and making false statements.

 The FBI arrested the couple Monday, and they have since been held in the Mecklenburg County Jail. The judge also ordered the couple transferred to the Middle District of North Carolina in Greensboro, where their cases will be heard.

Steven Anthony Webb, 41, has been a Kannapolis police officer since 2008.

According to WBTV, a criminal complaint says that on July 4, an FBI agent was investigating a file sharing network possibly connected to child abuse and pornography.

Investigators say they downloaded pornographic videos with children having sex and found an eight-minute video of a child engaged in a sex act with an adult on a hard drive belonging to the Webbs.

The complaint further states that Tracy Webb lied to an investigator by giving a false statement.

Nicole Christian and questionable accusations

  Every week we report on at least two or three children who are molested by police all across the United States. And those are just the cases that make it to the media. So with that in mind and recalling the Sean Lanigan case, we look at the Fairfax County cops arrest of a local swim instructor accused of inappropriately touching a child and have our doubts and if Fairfax County cop NICOLE CHRISTIAN is involved, than the police should drop all charges immediately because we have seen the results of her work. NICOLE CHRISTIAN is the cop who worked on the case the Sean Lanigan case.

Here’s a summary of what the Fairfax County Police did to Lanigan….and they got away with by the way.

Falsely Accused, Sean Lanigan Attempts to Reclaim His Life

By CHRISTINA CARON

After being exonerated of molestation charges last year, Virginia teacher Sean Lanigan said he felt "like someone lifted an elephant right off my back."

The courtroom erupted in cheers, and several people began to cry, including himself.

"I don't cry very often and I can say I shed a few tears in that moment when I was able to embrace my life," said Lanigan. "I thought, 'Ok, finally some justice was done, and I'm gonna get my life back.'"

But what seemed like the end was only another beginning.

Nearly a year after he was acquitted, the 43-year-old physical education teacher is still struggling to reclaim his reputation and repay 90 percent of his legal bills, especially now that he no longer has a fulltime job.

Last spring, Lanigan was in a different frame of mind, trying to find a way to explain to his children what he was going through.

In 2010, a 12-year-old female student falsely accused Lanigan of allegedly trying to lay on top of her in an equipment room.

One of Lanigan's three children is the same age as his accuser, and another is a year younger. 

"If you had asked me last May would I be standing in my shoes right now, still stressed out, seeing a therapist, worried about the situation, I would have said you're crazy," said Lanigan, who lives in Centreville, Va.

'I'm Going to Make Him Pay' 

Prior to being charged with two felonies, Lanigan had a sterling reputation at Centre Ridge Elementary School, where he worked for 13 years teaching elementary school P.E. He also coached a high school boys' soccer team and various club teams in the area.

Then in December 2009, after giving a verbal warning to a 12-year-old girl after she misbehaved on a school bus, the girl reportedly told her friends, "Mr. Lanigan's a jerk," according to court records reported by The Washington Post.

Then she said, "I'm going to make him pay."

The girl had been part of the Centre Ridge safety patrol team, a group of about 80 fifth and sixth graders whose job it is to make sure the other kids on the school bus are behaving.

As head of the safety patrols, Lanigan received an email from a worried parent saying the girl was bullying kids and using inappropriate language. Lanigan warned the girl that her behavior was inappropriate.

Ten days later he says the girl's behavior continued, and another teacher spoke to her.

Then, in mid-January, the girl and a friend of hers began telling people that Lanigan had tried to lay on top of her in the equipment room, on a stack of blue tumbling mats, saying he would "treat her like a queen."

The friend claimed to have witnessed the whole thing.

The accuser's name is not being used by the media because she is a minor.

Soon, Lanigan would face 40 years in prison.

After the school principal found out about the accusations, the police were called in.

And on Jan. 20 of last year Lanigan was pulled out of class, brought to the principal's office and subsequently interrogated for two hours. For the first half hour, however, he wasn't even aware as to why he was there.

"Half hour into it [detective] Nicole Christian said, 'You have no idea why you're here do you?'" Lanigan recalled. "I said 'No I don't. Please explain to me. What is going on here?'"

That's when he says they told him what he was being accused of.

He says the conversation ended when they asked him to take a polygraph test at which point he said he would willingly take one, but he also wanted to see a lawyer.

"They said if I didn't do anything I shouldn't need to talk to a lawyer," he said.

Shortly afterward, they took his keys and his school badge.

On Jan. 29, he was charged with abduction and aggravated sexual battery and he went to jail where he stayed for four days until he was released on $50,000 bail.

When Lanigan was in jail, police released his booking photograph, age and home address.

"It is usual protocol, but was it necessary?" asked Bill Cummings, a close friend of Lanigan's who has known him for 14 years.

That's the question that many are asking now that Lanigan's name and image has been tarnished.

"I'm doing whatever I can to help him with this intolerable situation. It's disgraceful how he's been treated by Fairfax county schools," Cummings said.

The first few weeks Lanigan was out of jail the community showered him and his family with support -- they brought over dinners, gift cards and even volunteered to watch the kids so he and his wife could have a date night.

Lanigan was well-known in his housing development, a community called Virginia Run.

For several years he dressed up as Santa Claus during the holidays, and showed up at the community center on a flatbed driven by draft horses.

Neighbors would stuff pillows in his Santa suit to camouflage his fit physique. He even played the roles of Great Pumpkin and Easter bunny.

When people heard about the charges against him, they began writing and calling Fairfax, Va. state delegate Tim Hugo.

"I had mothers calling me who said, 'We trust this guy,'" Hugo said, who was amazed at the community's passionate response. "There's not a person who has a bad thing to say."

So many people contacted Hugo that he, in turn, contacted the Fairfax County School District, but he says they told him it was an internal matter and they would not discuss it.

"I think what they've done to Sean Lanigan is unconscionable," said Hugo, who worries other male teachers in the school district feel wary, even paranoid. "The guy's been railroaded."

The school district is currently embroiled in another controversy regarding the closure of Clifton Elementary School.

A Clifton resident recently accused the school board of using email to secretly ask one another whether or not they would vote to close the elementary school, allegedly violating the state's Open Meetings laws.

"Fairfax can never admit they're wrong," Hugo said.

Paul Regnier, the Fairfax schools spokesman, did not respond to an interview request made Monday by ABCNews.com.

The school did, however, issue a statement to The Washington Post on Monday evening. They said the decision to transfer Lanigan to another school was standard practice in "any case involving a serious disciplinary proceeding," and he could "seek reimbursement of his legal fees from his teachers association."

Regnier didn't give any specifics about that reimbursement other than to say the teachers association insures members for up to $35,000.

During the probable cause hearing, the accuser actually admitted that Lanigan never actually laid on top of her. But the case still went to a grand jury.

"Nobody wanted to be attached to dismissing a charge against someone who was alleged to have molested a child," said Cummings.

The accuser reportedly said during the trial that she had always hated Lanigan, according to The Post. She also admitted to a Facebook posting where she called it all "a joke."

Although Lanigan's trial lasted only four days in May and the jury only deliberated for about 10 minutes before deciding he wasn't guilty, Lanigan wasn't allowed to return to Centre Ridge.

Instead, he was transferred to South Lakes High School in Reston, Va., where he was paid a fulltime salary to work five days out of 10.

The decision to go to South Lakes wasn't his, he said, it was a "take it or leave it" situation.

As the months passed, he put up a strong front for himself, and his family.

"I don't talk very often -- I don't chat, I have thick skin," he explained. "There's a lot of people who don't realize how emotionally torn up I've been."

After the trial, "Everyone I talked to said 'I'm so happy your life is back to normal.' My life is not normal."

One of the first Google search results under Lanigan's name pulls up the website badbadteacher.com.

Lanigan says kids still run up to him, saying they miss him.

"Sometimes it brings me to tears," he said.

Then, to his dismay, in March the school district notified Lanigan they would only pay for $60,000 of his legal fees -- he incurred more than $120,000.

And last month, he was destaffed from South Lakes -- a decision based on seniority and enrollment numbers.

The school simply didn't have the enrollment to staff nine P.E. teachers.

His wife Karin is working part-time in order to help take care of their children who range in ages from 8 to 14. She left her fulltime position when Lanigan was transferred to Reston.

Despite all of these hardships, the Lanigan family doesn't plan on leaving the area -- both Lanigan and his wife were born and raised in Northern Virginia and their parents are still there too.

Uprooting, he says, would be a major disruption.

Until The Washington Post's Saturday article highlighting Lanigan's present-day difficulties, several families in their housing development had assumed the Lanigan family was doing O.K.

But Beth Tweddle, 50, a neighbor who has known the Lanigans for more than 10 years, said his inner circle knew better.

The pain of being falsely accused hadn't diminished: she watched as Lanigan lost weight, his trademark "booming" laugh fading away.

 "After the exoneration we heard that laugh again," said Tweddle. "It was so great a year ago for it to come back again. But it's been diminished."

When asked if he would consider suing the accuser's family, Lanigan said, "I just don't know." 

Right now, he says, his focus is on trying to get his money back and securing a job.

The Lanigan family has taken out loans to make ends meet, so they've set up a fund to help pay off the legal bills.

Lanigan is also picking up work as a soccer trainer at a soccer club.

"Hopefully," Tweddle said, "Sean's laugh will be back soon."

For now, Lanigan and his wife are staying strong. They celebrated their 16th anniversary last Friday, and Lanigan says they're closer than ever: "one strong, unified mind."

"We've always taught our kids right and wrong, and … there are people out there that are trying to make this thing right," he said.

Goodyear police officer arrested, accused of having sex with young girl starting in 2003

PHOENIX — A Goodyear police detective is accused of having sex with a girl starting in 2003 when she was 12.

KPHO-TV (http://bit.ly/17oKYWZ) reports 52-year-old Jose Jesus Roman was arrested by Maricopa County sheriff's deputies at Goodyear's patrol station.

He's being held without bail on suspicion of multiple counts of sexual conduct with a minor, molestation of a child, sexual abuse and indecent exposure.

The now 22-year-old woman told police Roman allegedly molested her and had sex with her at his home in Tonopah and at another home in Glendale from 2003 to 2006.

Roman has denied the allegations and taken a polygraph examination.

The 19-year department veteran has been unpaid administrative leave since May 10 when Goodyear police became aware of the alleged crimes.

It's unclear if Roman has a lawyer.

Former FMU Police officer arrested by SLED

Off-Duty Officer Accused Of Raping S.I. Teen

A city police officer is under arrest after being accused of trying to rape a 16-year-old.

Peter Ciollo, 29, is also charged with giving alcohol to a minor, endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse.

Sources say the officer met the teen victim through extended family.

The officer was off-duty at the time of the alleged attack, which happened on Staten Island.

Police have not said when the alleged attack took place.

Suspended Sentence for Baltimore Co Police Officer Who Sent Explicit Videos to a Minor

 A Baltimore County Police Officer who plead guilty to misconduct in office after being caught with sexually explicit videos of himself while on duty received a suspended sentence and was placed on probation.

Officer Aaron Pross was also charged with sending those same videos to a minor though this charge has been dropped – instead the five-year veteran of the department agreed to resign. Pross sent the video after meeting the minor online.

The video was found on the 16-year-old girls cell phone by her father, an ex-FBI agent who spoke to FOX45. The girl's father said he knew instantly the man he was watching in the video was a Baltimore County police officer. But it would take three months for the department to prove it was Ross.

Pross' attorney fought for a sentence of probation before judgment. Instead Pross received a suspended sentence and was placed on probation – a conviction that will keep him out of law enforcement – at least for the next three years.

 

Police Officer Charged With Soliciting A Minor Has Long List Of Troubles

Memphis) Memphis Police Officer Jason Webb isn’t in a uniform, but a mug shot, after he was indicted and arrested last week for patronizing prostitution.

“The investigation revealed at least one of those prostitutes was underage,” said Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong. “At this point he is on non-enforcement.”

Police tell us they fired Jason Webb, threw him off the force.

They allowed us to review his personnel files. There were no details on his firing, but plenty of other trouble.

In 2000, he got into a fight with a man at Platinum Plus over a female. He received one day suspension.

In 2009, he was suspended for two days for not showing up at work and not letting anyone know about it.

Between 2008 and 2010, his wife filed harassment, simple assault and child abuse reports against him at least nine times in Fayette County. Webb was charged for never informing MPD about any of it.

Webb was also charged for abusing the sick leave policy, taking his vehicle out of town while on duty and not informing MPD about two side jobs he had. One of those jobs provided a free vehicle and the other virtually-free rent.

When police did fire Webb, he appealed to the Civil Service Commission and got his job back.

“We don’t always agree with it. I stand by when a person is terminated it has to be done at the chief’s level. Nine times out of ten I have been briefed on it. I stand behind their decisions,” said Armstrong.

For the last year, investigators had their eye on Webb. They say between July and August of 2012 he contacted a person he should have known was under the age of 18 to engage in conduct that constitutes statutory rape.

Last Thursday, Webb was indicted on four counts of solicitation of a minor.

Webb is out of jail on $10,000 bond.

He told us outside his home Monday that the charges against him are not true and happened more than a year ago.

He has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the Memphis Police Department, saying during an incident in January 2012, police held him in a vehicle for eight hours, violating his constitutional rights.

Ex-cop sentenced for child porn

A former police officer, politician and Gulf War veteran blamed battlefield exposure to toxic chemicals as one factor that led him to amass thousands graphic videos depicting sexual abuse of young girls.

Colby Michael McCormick, 46, was sentenced Friday in Clackamas County Circuit Court, after pleading guilty to eight counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the second degree.

McCormick, a supply technician at the Portland VA Hospital, was arrested in June 2012 when child pornography investigators discovered his online activities. He was released from the Clackamas County Jail on his own recognizance and immediately resumed his online activities. He was arrested again Sept. 11.

Altogether, McCormick downloaded some 3,000 hardcore videos of girls engaged in sexual behavior, many with adult male relatives.

Circuit Judge Eve Miller sentenced McCormick to three years and four months in prison. 

Colby McCormick, cop who amassed more than 3,000 child porn videos, sentenced to prison

Police officer Colby Michael McCormick, 46, was sentenced Friday in Clackamas County Circuit Court, after pleading guilty to eight counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the second degree.  McCormick was arrested in June 2012 when child pornography investigators discovered his online activities. He was released from the Clackamas County Jail on his own recognizance and immediately resumed his online activities. He was arrested again Sept. 11. Altogether, McCormick downloaded some 3,000 hardcore videos of girls engaged in sexual behavior, many with adult male relatives.

 

police officer's child sex abuse case delayed

police officer's child sex abuse case delayed

Clark County judge granted a continuance in the child rape case against a Beaverton police officer this week, according to court staff.

Christopher Ramoan Warren, 33, is accused in Clark County Superior Court of raping a 5-year-old and charged in Washington County Circuit Court with defrauding the State of Oregon.

Warren, who was working as a desk officer, was placed on paid administrative leave in April, when he was arrested in Washington County on accusations that included food stamp fraud, theft of at least $1,000 from the state of Oregon. He was arrested at his Vancouver home in May on accusations of sexually abusing a young girl.

Warren joined the Beaverton Police Department in 2004 after spending two years as a reserve officer. He was placed on paid leave in September 2009 when the Multnomah County district attorney's office investigated claims he inappropriately touched a girl when he was 17, the agency said. The case was dropped in April 2010.

He was placed on paid leave again one month later, the police department said. At the time, investigators were looking into allegations that he failed to report suspected child abuse involving one of his childhood friends, according to a memo from Multnomah County prosecutors. The friend was later convicted of sex abuse.

 

San Jose Officer Charged With Requesting, Possessing Explicit Photos From Teen

A San Jose police officer has been arrested on suspicion of asking for and possessing sexually explicit photos of a 16-year-old girl he conversed with on Facebook, a Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney said.

Officer Tony Fregger, 33, an eight-year veteran, turned himself in this evening to San Jose police who arrested him in connection with possessing sexual photos of a minor and communicating with the purpose of obtaining the photos, Deputy District Attorney David Ezgar said.

Fregger was released after posting $75,000 bail and his arraignment will take place July 22 in Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose, Ezgar said.

Fregger, who joined the San Jose Police Department in 2005 and worked for the Sexual Assault Investigation Unit from March 21, 2010, to this past March 16, has been placed on administrative leave, district attorney's office spokesman Sean Webby said.

"Mr. Fregger was engaged in investigating these crimes against minors and he engaged in one," Ezgar said.

The sexual assault unit officer first contacted the teen girl, who is not being named, in 2010 and communicated with her primarily by phone and online, Ezgar said.

On Jan. 26, 2011, the teenaged "Jane Doe" informed Fregger in a post on Facebook that she was 17 when she was in fact only 16 years old, according to a statement of probable cause filed by Internal Affairs Unit police Sgt. Johnson Fong.

The girl's post read, "I'm 17 and my birthday's in February."

In a reply sent soon afterwards, Fregger allegedly wrote, "You' 17!? Oh man, I thought u were like 21! LOL."

Fregger's personal email exchanges with the girl on Jan. 29, 2011, revealed she sent two photos of her genitalia, Ezgar said.

Prosecutors claim that the officer requested the nude images of her from Jan. 26 to Feb. 20 of that year knowing she was underage.

State law prohibits adults from either requesting or obtaining sexually explicit images of a person under 18, Ezgar said.

"He was specifically informed she was a minor and forged ahead and obtained sexually explicit photos of her," Ezgar said.

San Jose police launched an investigation this year and on May 10 served search warrants, obtaining Fregger's personal computer in San Jose, according to Fong.

Police officers located photos of the girl on the computer inside a folder under her name, according to Fong.

Police also used a web service company based in Santa Clara County to search his online communications where they also found the sexually explicit photos, Fong reported.

Ezgar declined to say how police were tipped off about the officer.

He praised the Police Department, which he said "presented the evidence to us."

"They worked hard on this case," Ezgar said.

 

 

Brooklyn cop a prolific pedophile, filmed naked children and snapped photos of little girls in courthouse: Feds

Alberto Yard, 44, allegedly took pictures of naked children in his bedroom and also installed a secret camera in the bathroom to record children showering and using the toilet, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Margaret Gandy.

A Brooklyn cop charged with uploading kiddie porn from the Internet has been re-arrested after the feds discovered he was also making sexually explicit videos of children in his home.

Alberto Yard, 44, allegedly took pictures of naked children in his bedroom and also installed a secret camera in the bathroom to record children showering and using the toilet, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Margaret Gandy.

The prosecutor called the new evidence a "shocking turn of events" discovered by FBI agents reviewing 10 cell phones and three laptop computers seized when Yard was arrested July 2.

"He is a danger to society," Gandy said of the sicko who worked in Brooklyn Civil Court on Livingston St.

The videos shot in Yard's bedroom of an underage girl and boy appeared to have been made in 2007, according to the complaint.

Five of the children have been identified and there are "many more," Gandy said.

Yard, a 19-year-veteran who lives in East New York with his parents, was also taking voyeuristic pictures of unsuspecting young girls in the courthouse while on-duty, but those pictures did not rise to the level of federal crimes.

Yard, whose became a gun control activist after his 17-year-old daughter Nyasia was shot dead at a Brooklyn club in 2009, is facing at least 15 years in prison if he's convicted.

He may also be hit with additional weapons charges because agents found three illegal handguns in his bedroom including one with a defaced serial number.

Magistrate Ramon Reyes revoked Yard's $750,000 and ordered that he be held in protective custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

 

Augusta police officer charged with sex crimes

EL DORADO — An Augusta police officer is facing charges that he had sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old middle-school girl, according to Butler County officials and records released Friday.

The officer, Jerry Dale Ballinger, made his first court appearance Wednesday, said Cheryl Pierce, assistant Butler County attorney.

Ballinger faces two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child older than 14 but younger than 16, according to the court-charging document in the case.

The victim’s name is being withheld because of her age and the nature of the alleged offense.

A Sheriff’s Office report says the alleged offenses occurred in unincorporated Butler County, about two miles southwest of Augusta. The incident was reported by an official with the Augusta Police Department, according to the report.

The Sheriff’s Office is the lead investigating agency because the crime is alleged to have occurred outside the city, Pierce said.

The first incident is alleged to have occurred sometime in April; the second sometime between June 15 and July 9, the charging document said. The report identified Ballinger as an acquaintance of, but not related to, the alleged victim.

Ballinger’s case is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Aug. 19 before Butler County District Court Chief Judge David Ricke, Pierce said.

She said Ballinger was released from custody after posting a $50,000 bond.

 

Officer facing charges in lawsuit with Memphis Police Department

Yet another twist in the Memphis police officer facing charges of soliciting a minor. It turns out officer Jason Webb is suing the Memphis Police Department for $1 million. According to the MPD, this is the reason Webb is on non-enforcement status.
The circumstances of the arrest are unclear; however, officials say it happened outside city limits. However, this is not the first time Webb has seen the back of a police car.

Court documents shows Webb, who was a member of the felony response unit, took a personal day in January 2012. Shortly after midnight, Webb was driving to a friend's house, when he almost hit a tow truck from behind. According to these documents, a man in the truck got out of the car with a gun in his hand, started yelling, and followed Webb when he drove off. Police were called and Webb was subjected to a drunk driving test. Webb failed the test and DUI charges were not filed.

Off-Duty Officer Accused Of Raping S.I. Teen

A city police officer is under arrest after being accused of trying to rape a 16-year-old. Peter Ciollo, 29, is also charged with giving alcohol to a minor, endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse.  Sources say the officer met the teen victim through extended family.  The officer was off-duty at the time of the alleged attack, which happened on Staten Island. Police have not said when the alleged attack took place.

 

Texts used in Warren cops sexual misconduct hearing

Transcripts of text messages helped refresh a teenage girl’s memory as she testified Wednesday in the case of a former Warren police officer charged with sexual misconduct. The 16-year-old girl was led through some 308 pages of transcripts of text messages from her cell phone, many of them involving the 62-year-old man with whom she said she had consensual sex. Dale Wayne Malesh, of Roseville, faces 10 counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct in Roseville. At the start of Malesh’s preliminary exam Wednesday in 39th District Court, the girl said she met Malesh while he still was a Warren police officer assigned as a school resource officer in the Warren Woods Public Schools.The teen — whose name is not being published by The Macomb Daily — testified before Judge Marco Santia that Malesh began helping her after she was bullied at Warren Woods Middle School. That help continued at Warren Woods-Tower High School, where she recently completed her junior year. The girl said she and Malesh became friends, and that she sent him a picture in June 2012 that included her, other students and Malesh.She said he asked her to send another photo, so she provided a picture of herself at homecoming last October.The teen testified that her relationship with Malesh turned sexual last December. She said they “sexted” or spoke daily and that she listed him in her phone as “My QT.”Directed by Macomb County Assistant Prosecutor Nicole Blank through the transcripts, the Warren girl confirmed 10 dates between last December and March in which she claimed she had intercourse with Malesh at his Roseville home or at a local motel.The preliminary exam — a probable-cause hearing to determine whether there is sufficient evidence for a defendant to stand trial ¬— was adjourned until July 24, when the principal of Warren Woods-Tower High School and a teacher are scheduled to testify.The Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office filed the Roseville charges against Malesh in June, after he was bound over to Macomb County Circuit Court on four counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct in Warren. The offense is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The age of consent in Michigan is 16. Prosecutors have based their case against Malesh on a section of the state’s criminal sexual conduct laws that prohibits a person from using his or her role as a contractual service provider or non-student volunteer to gain access to, or establish a relationship with, minors between ages 16 and 18 for sexual purposes.Malesh remains in the Macomb County Jail on bonds totaling $650,000.As a Warren police officer, he was assigned to the Warren Woods Public Schools as the district’s school resource officer. Known to employees and students as “Officer Dale” and “O.D.,” he held that post from September 1999 until his retirement from the force in January 2011. School officials then hired him as security officer, in which he no longer had the power to make arrests. Malesh continued in that job until June 2012.

Cop Sentenced for Incest

A former Elko Police Captain faces life behind bars after admitting guilt to incest in exchange for dropping child pornography counts. Aaron Hughes was sentenced Thursday in Elko District Court.

Cave Spring police officer arrested and charged with child molestation

According to Floyd County jail records, Patrick Edward Earwood, 31, of a Park Street address in Cave Spring was arrested Monday evening at the Cave Spring Police Department. Earwood was arrested on warrants issued by the Floyd County Sheriff's Office charging him with aggravated child molestation, sexual battery and aggravated sodomy that allegedly occurred in Floyd County.The charges stem from allegations that Earwood sexually assaulted one 16-year old and one teen under the age of sixteen earlier this year. Earwood was officially terminated Monday evening after being on paid administrative leave during the investigation.Earwood has been an officer with the Cave Spring Police Department since 2012 and his Facebook "about' status states that he is a "Problem Solver at City of Cave Spring"The case has been bound over to superior court. A bond hearing was scheduled for today.The arrest reports within this list do not reflect the actual guilt or innocence of the individual or individuals listed. All parties are presumed innocent until they are proven guilty in a court of law. Not every arrest or charge leads to a conviction. A conviction or an acquittal will be determined by the court system.

Former Troy cop's sex case on hold

QUEENS — The sentencing of a former Troy police sergeant arrested a year ago in a sting for sending sexual material to a minor over the Internet was postponed again in Queens County Court.

Patrick Rosney, 54, of Rensselaer pleaded guilty in March to felony first-degree attempted dissemination of indecent material to a minor. Officials in the Queens County District Attorney's office said Wednesday's sentencing was postponed because the judge hearing the case was absent. No new date was set.

Rosney retired a sergeant after 26 years on the job after his arrest in June 2012 for sending images over the Internet to an NYPD detective he thought was a 14-year-old girl. He is expected to be sentenced to five years' probation and a $5,000 fine. He will also have to complete a sex offender program and register as a sex offender, officials have said.

This Week's Charge of Child Molestation by your Local Police: Kiddie porn charges for Brooklyn cop

This Week's Charge of Child Molestation by your Local Police: Kiddie porn charges for Brooklyn cop: A BROOKLYN court officer arrested Tuesday on child pornography charges also used his cell phone to take “voyeuristic” pictures of young g...

Kiddie porn charges for Brooklyn cop

A BROOKLYN court officer arrested Tuesday on child pornography charges also used his cell phone to take “voyeuristic” pictures of young girls in the courthouse, authorities said.

Alberto Yard, a 19-year veteran court officer assigned to Civil Court on Livingston St., allegedly uploaded more than 200 images of child pornography from the Internet, according to a complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.

Many of the downloaded pictures depicted toddlers being tortured and sexually exploited, the complaint stated. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, an advocacy group that tracks child porn downloads, uncovered Yard’s activity and notified authorities.

Defense lawyer John Esposito said Yard, 44, had an “unblemished record.”

Magistrate Marilyn Go released Yard on $750,000 bail and ordered him not to access the Internet on any electronic devices.

This Week's Charge of Child Molestation by your Local Police: Cop charged with illegal use of a minor in sexuall...

This Week's Charge of Child Molestation by your Local Police: Cop charged with illegal use of a minor in sexuall...: YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - An on-duty Youngstown Police Officer was arrested over night and is being held in the Mahoning County Jail. Detectiv...

Cop charged with illegal use of a minor in sexually oriented material

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - An on-duty Youngstown Police Officer was arrested over night and is being held in the Mahoning County Jail.

Detective-Sergeant Robert Lodwick was arraigned Friday on felony charges of illegal use of a minor in sexually oriented material and importuning.

Lodwick is being held on $100,000 bond and if he is released he will be on electronically-monitored house arrest.

Before Lodwick could be arraigned, other inmates had to be placed on lockdown because they are aware of who he is and have made threats.

Sources say Youngstown Police Chief Rod Foley immediately began an investigation and worked with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, or BCI, to begin a probe into the allegations of misconduct related to a juvenile.

Prosecutors said the 14-year-old alleged victim was a victim in a case and said Lodwick, as an officer, should have been protecting her, not attempting to solicit her as alleged in the criminal complaint.

Lodwick, a lifelong resident of the area,  had been assigned to the Family Services Unit that often deals with juveniles and underage victims, but it's unclear if that's how he met the suspected victim.

The Mahoning County Sheriff's Office also assisted in the arrest.

Lodwick was ordered to have no contact with the juvenile victim and had to surrender his firearm. He is not permitted access to a computer or any other similar device.

Sources tell 21 News Lodwick has admitted to the crimes to authorities

Cop charged with sex crimes

MONROE - Cop Carlos Martinez has been charged with multiple counts of sex crimes involving a then 14-year-old girl who was abused by the officer for nearly 10 years. Carlos Martinez, 58, is charged with three felonies: voyeurism, child molestation and sexual exploitation of a minor. The abuse allegedly began in 2003. The girl is now 24.Police found photographs and video tapes of the girl and other evidence.An FBI investigation in San Antonio, Texas revealed that Martinez took sexually explicit pictures of the Monroe girl without her knowledge or consent and continued an improper sexual relationship with the girl for almost 10 years. The FBI task force arrested Martinez on suspicion of possessing child pornography involving the girl. Investigators in Texas then contacted the Washington State Patrol in March 2012. The investigation in Washington is being led by WSP Lt. Ron Mead.