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Saturday, July 26, 2008

Trooper Arrested In Net Sting

I can believe that there are some people still stupid enough to do this kind of thing....but a cop?

A state trooper was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of sexual exploitation of a child after Fort Lupton police said he used the Internet to send graphic sexual pictures of himself to a person he thought was a 14-year-old girl.

Fort Lupton Police Chief Ron Grannis said Colorado State Patrol Officer Justin Tolman, 22, was arrested Friday morning at his home in Colorado Springs and was booked into the Weld County Jail.

Tolman - who has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of a State Patrol investigation - has been with the State Patrol since July 2007 and finished the academy in December.

Grannis said his department began investigating Tolman after Detective Crystal Schwartz set up Internet accounts on MySpace.com and Yahoo! Chat posing as a 14- year-old girl.

Soon after the account was set up, Tolman began messaging Schwartz, sending her pornographic images and telling her what he would do sexually when they met, investigators said.

Police say Tolman even sent a picture of himself in a State Patrol uniform standing next to a patrol vehicle, and he messaged the "girl" every day for two months.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is remarkable that this trooper has been put on "paid administrative leave." If he worked for any of the private corporations with which I have been employed, he would have been fired out of hand. Why isn't he in jail pending his prison sentence?

Anonymous said...

I would assume he's out on bond, which is pretty much standard operating procedure.