NEW ORLEANS -- A New Orleans
police officer has been arrested and booked under allegations of possessing
child pornography.
According to the Louisiana
Attorney General's Office, Bradley Wax, 54, has been arrested and charged with
38 counts of possessing pornography involving juveniles.
Wax, a 16-year veteran assigned
to the New Orleans Police Department's 4th District, was arrested in St.
Tammany and has been booked in the St. Tammany Parish jail.
According to the attorney
general's office, an undercover operation led investigators to securing a
search warrant on Wax's home in January. After searching his computer and other
electronic devices, investigators found Wax had child pornography.
The NOPD has placed Wax on
emergency suspension without pay pending the outcome of an ongoing criminal
investigation. He faces 20 years in prison on each count of child pornography.
The case was a joint
investigation by the attorney general's cyber crimes unit, the St. Tammany
Sheriff's Office and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Police officer charged with
assault on child
A Beaufort police officer will
appear in court next month on a charge that he assaulted a child, authorities
said.
On April 20, deputies with the
Carteret County Sheriff’s Office served Capt. Robert Dunn with the arrest
warrant, according to information released by the sheriff’s office Tuesday
after receiving several media inquiries.
Dunn, 46, was arrested on a
warrant charging him with misdemeanor assault on a child under the age of 12,
the sheriff’s office said.
The warrant indicated the
female child is age 10 but little other information was available.
The charge was filed at the
magistrate’s office and not by the sheriff’s office.
Dunn was released on a written
promise to appear in court. He court date is scheduled for May 6.