You are correct. I should have said that the cop tried to deceive Craig into believing that he could avoid publicity by pleading guilty. The cop's statements don't quite rise to the level of an outright lie.
Let me refine that a bit more, if I may. Karsnia told him the truth about his own intentions and let Craig make whatever he wanted out of it. Nothing prevented Craig, who is a 62-year-old law maker, not a naive 16-year-old skateboarder, from recalling that arrest reports pass through many hands as they wend their way through the criminal justice system.
Over the many years of Craig's career, he has seen many, many colleagues go down because of leaked information.