Homeland Security official arrested in sex sting

[VirtualChicano]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been arrested on sex charges stemming from a Florida-based Internet sting, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said on Tuesday.
Tue Apr 4, 2006 11:22 PM ET11


photo: (CBS/AP/Polk County Sheriff)

Brian Doyle, 55, faces 23 charges in Polk County, Florida, related to use of a computer to seduce a child and transmitting harmful material to a minor, Judd said in a statement.

Doyle was taken into custody at his home in Silver Spring, Maryland, outside Washington, on Tuesday evening while he was on the line with undercover detectives, Judd said.

"He was on his computer communicating with the undercover detective who he believed to be a 14-year-old girl at the time we knocked on his door in Maryland, took him into custody and served a search warrant," Judd said in an interview on CNN.

On March 12, Doyle attempted to contact a 14-year-old girl whose profile was posted on the Internet and initiated a sexually explicit conversation. The "girl" was actually an undercover Polk County detective, the statement said.

"There is no question that Doyle believed that he was having these disgusting, obscene discussions, on-line and on the phone, with a young girl," Judd said.

"What stands out to me the most in this particular case was the fact that Brian, on his first conversation with our undercover detective, who he believed to be a 14-year-old girl, clearly identified himself as a deputy press secretary for Homeland Security," Judd told CNN.

"If he would provide that kind of information to include a photograph of himself with his identification tags, who else may he be talking to around the world who he thinks to be a 14-year-old girl?" Judd said.

The sheriff said Doyle already faces 23 felony counts in the state of Florida and could face charges in a federal investigation now underway.

"We take these allegations very seriously and we will cooperate fully with this ongoing investigation," DHS spokesman Russ Knocke said in a statement.

A Homeland Security official said Doyle was expected to be put on administrative leave on Wednesday.


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[Hobarticus]

1. Know why this is so ironic to me?

I found out that the kid who grew up across the street from me in my hometown was busted for soliciting child pornography online.

I feel no remorse for the guy, it's a heinous crime.

But wanna know who busted him in the sting? The Department of Homeland Security. No lie. Your tax dollars, supposedly being spent to keep you safe, is being spent chasing down child pornography. Hell, DHS is being used as just another investigative branch. That's not what this agency is for, and that's not what that budget is for.

[ET Awful]

2. Didn't that TV special a while back where they bust internet predators

nail a Homeland Security guy too? Can't remember what show that was though.

[Nimrod2005]

3. Is this guy a Republican? I hope....

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[VirtualChicano]

5. Whoops!

Got it boss!

my apologies.