Posted on 10/19/2014 11:50:44 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Fairfield: CHP sergeant suspected of downloading child pornography on and off duty
FAIRFIELD -- A California Highway Patrol sergeant allegedly downloaded child pornography on a laptop while he was working off duty and on duty near Wi-Fi locations in Suisun, Fairfield and Vacaville, a Vacaville police sergeant said.
The child pornography allegedly downloaded by CHP Sgt. Eric Lund showed pre-pubescent children having sex acts with adults, police Lt. Matt Lydon said.
Lund, 49, of Chico, was arrested at 9 p.m. Thursday on 21 felony charges of sending or selling obscene matter depicting a minor and on misdemeanor charges of possessing obscene matter of a minor in a sexual act, Vacaville police said.
Vacaville police met Lund at the CHP's Fairfield office and served a warrant to search an external hard drive found in his personal vehicle, Lydon said. The hard drive contained multiple downloaded child pornography images, Lydon said.
Lund posted $115,000 bail around 3:30 a.m. Friday and was released from the Solano County jail, Lydon said.
Lydon said it is not known how long Lund allegedly was downloading child pornography, but police began an investigation in August when software they were monitoring indicated someone was downloading pornography.
Police were then able to determine the identity of the suspect.
Lund has worked out of the CHP Office in Fairfield for the past year. He has been with the CHP for 26 years and worked in Chico before his assignment to Fairfield, according to Diana McDermott, the CHP's Golden Gate Division Commander.
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Creepy cop alert ...
You can screen for many, many things during a back ground check, but you can’t screen for sexual proclivities or what is in a man’s soul.
This perversion toward children touches every demographic, every field and still the knowledge of a long prison sentence does not deter it.
I would like to think there is a scientific answer to this and that there would be a treatment for such but this is shameful, especially shameful that this is coming from this field.
Lund posted $115,000 bail
Why should a “Sworn Peace Officer” ever be afforded Bail in a case like this??
Ballistics is a science.
Easy answer: Eighth Amendment.
A child molester cop? He’s going to be very popular in prison.
Not the sharpest tool in the shed.
I’d like to know how a CHP Sgt. came up with $115K, shy of putting his residence up as collateral.
I’m sure he will claim he was just doing research so he could arrest the bad guys.
If homosexuals are born with a “gay gene” that causes them to be attracted to people of the same sex, then Can we not logically assume that people are that people are born with a gene that makes them attracted to people of a different age, i.e., children?
I’m just waiting for this to be tried in court. (Someone will probably post something momentarily that indicates it’s already been done.)
Is he buddies with Bernie Ward?
Porn surfing while getting a Gov’t paycheck is away of life for at least a few million drones nationwide. They’re keeping the porn sites alive
In the land of free milk and honey a CHP sergeant can make $321,000 per year plus a lush benefits package. You can look up CHP salaries here: State Worker Salary Database
Yauzza! I’m in the wrong line of work!
Oh yeah. He better enjoy being locked in his cell for 23 hrs a day 7 days a week.
He should pull a Pete Townshend and claim its for “research purposes.” /sarc
Jeeze, he looks like Barney Frank’s brother. What took them so long to pick up on it?
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