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Topic: LEPET A Crime Fighting Tool? UBETCHA!
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Ted Todd
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posted 01-06-2010 11:50 AM
 
I saw this on the Net this morning and thought I would post it. A nice added bonus for law enforcement agencies that conduct polygraph pre-employment screening.Ted Would-be sheriff's employee arrested on child porn charge
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January 05, 2010 4:58 PM
Dusty Ricketts
A Sellersville man who had applied for a job at the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office was arrested after he admitted to having child pornography on his computer during his job interview. Clarence W. Burnette, 25, of Sellersville, was arrested by the state Attorney General’s CyberCrime Unit on one count of possession of child pornography, a third degree felony. Additional charges may be added at a later date. Burnette was undergoing a pre-employment polygraph test when he admitted to having child pornography on his computer. Investigators seized a computer from Burnette’s residence and conducted a forensic analysis to confirm child pornography was on the computer. The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office, Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Marshal’s task force and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement assisted with the investigation.
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Taylor
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posted 01-06-2010 08:05 PM
Ted....that was my friend Mark Brown. Okay, he can be your friend too..lol I just spoke with him and he said he will post some more info real soon on the case. He said he got the info pretest - badda bing, badda boom! IP: Logged |
Ted Todd
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posted 01-06-2010 09:39 PM
Taylor,I have had few LEPETs that have resulted in search warrants and even "Consent Searches". My all time best is the guy that showed up to take his LEPET in a car that he "forgot" to return to the dealership during his "test drive". And to think......we get paid to do this job! Ted IP: Logged |
citypopo7
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posted 01-06-2010 09:43 PM
Hey everyone!! Well, here is the story straight from the horse’s mouth. In November this person came to the Sheriff’s Office for a pre-employment test as a Detention Deputy (corrections) to work in our jail. Also, at the time, he was still in the corrections academy. At the end of my pre-test interview I asked him the same type of question that I ask everyone, which is along the lines of: Is there anything else that you are not telling me that you think would bother you on the test? Something I have not asked you that you are still withholding? (Keep in mind we cover committing serious crimes during the pre-test at which time he mentioned nothing about his behavior).After I asked him that question he mentioned something about watching pornography. I then inquired if any of it contained children. In an attempt to minimize things and not put him on the defensive I approached the situation as though it was common for child porn to sometimes be included with regular porn when it is downloaded. I guess that was what he needed to feel comfortable because from there he began telling me the information. He admitted that recently, within one week of the test, he had watched approximately 60 clips of child porn on his computer and a friend’s computer. (As we all know, there was probably more) They ranged in length from 2 minutes to 50 minutes and contained children from 3 years old to 13 years old. Not to get too technical, but he did admit that the children in the videos were penetrated and participated in role playing. When I asked how he knew how old they were, in reference to the 3 year old, he held up his arm to show me how tall she was. I decided that there was no need to collect charts on this guy so when he came back from his restroom break I told him I discovered a problem with my equipment and sent him home. I then notified our computer crimes investigators who got in touch with our local Attorney General’s Office. They sent their investigators to the guy’s house and got consent to scan his computer. That is when they found some images/clips of child porn. He was arrested yesterday and charged with one count of possessing child porn. And as Donna said…..ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom!! You can view the local news clip and newspaper article at the following two sites:
http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_6070.shtml
http://www.pnj.com/article/20100106/NEWS01/100106003
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Lieguy
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posted 01-29-2010 11:58 AM
I once was conducting a pre-employment screen and asking the usual drug related questions. It became obvious that the applicant had used drugs well within the year of application, although he professed to have "turned his life around" since his last use.He stood up, said "F**k it, this has to stop sometime" and pulled a bindle of meth out of his pants pocket and put it on my desk! He then said "Now that I've come clean, can I still be a cop?" You can't make this stuff up..... IP: Logged |
alcatrazswimmer
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posted 03-01-2010 06:54 PM
This is the now the second such story I have heard of that are similar! While in polygraph school in 2007, I heard of a case in Missouri, where a a police officer from a smaller agency, applied for a job at an agency at a larger one that did use the polygraph for pre-employment. The officer must have gotten the first job through the good old boy thing. During the polygraph he actually admitted to the same thing, several counts of possession of child pornography on his personal home computer. WHAT A BUNCH OF MORONS!! DID THEY ACTUALLY THINK THEY WERE STILL GOING TO GET THE JOB AT THAT POINT! Why did they even apply, knowing what they were involved in and they would have to take a polygraph? You would have thought that they would have known better than to even risk applying. If criminals were smart, I guess we would not catch any of them, even the ones that slipped into the ranks of law enforcement. ------------------
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Det. Matthew Quist
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