Case #1

A state trooper assigned to protect the state's highest officials is facing felony charges of possessing child pornography after more than 3,000 images were found on a computer in his home, according to Baltimore County police.

Investigators say Bruce Allen Tucker, 47, of Esplanade Court in Owings Mills had received and exchanged images of child pornography, including pubescent and pre-pubescent girls performing sex acts with adults.

He was arrested Friday and released after posting $50,000 bail.

State police spokeswoman Elena Russo said Tucker had been suspended without pay. She confirmed that he had been a member of the executive protection team from January 2002 through February 2010, providing security for the governor and lieutenant governors in the Glendening, Ehrlich and O'Malley administrations.

According to the statement of charges, the investigation began in March, based on a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that Tucker might have been exchanging child porn in an AOL chat room. AOL closed his account that month, but detectives believe he started a new one.

Police obtained a search warrant for Tucker's apartment in May and seized a laptop, which was found in a water heater closet, as well as a thumb drive, floppy disks and three disposable 35-mm cameras. A forensic investigation revealed images on the laptop showing both boys and girls from 2 to 14 years old.

After the search of his apartment, Tucker told an investigator that his wife had cheated on him and left him in 2005, leaving him feeling "very depressed", "worthless" and "angry," according to charging documents.

He also said he wasn't sure why he began collecting and sharing the images in AOL chat rooms in 2009, but he was "more curious about it than looking at it for sexual purposes."

All the exchanges of images occurred while Tucker was off duty, said Lt. Robert McCullough, a Baltimore County police spokesman.

Tucker has been a trooper for 13 years and was working as an investigator at the Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center at the time of his arrest, McCullough said. According to its website, the center conducts research for federal, state and local law enforcement, public health, public safety and homeland security agencies.

Case #2

city police officer has been suspended with pay as the department investigates a woman's allegation that she was sexually assaulted during a traffic stop last week, officials confirmed Monday night.

The alleged assault occurred Friday night or Saturday morning when the officer was on-duty, with the woman telling police she was asked to perform a sex act to get out of being arrested, said police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.

The officer was not identified pending the outcome of the investigation but was described as a three-year veteran assigned to the Northeastern District.

Sex offense detectives are handling the investigation with oversight from chief of detectives Dean Palmere, Guglielmi said. Once the investigation is complete, police will confer with the state's attorney's office to determine whether to bring criminal charges.

"These allegations are egregious and extremely serious," Guglielmi said.

Guglielmi said investigators are looking at the officer's history and whether he and the woman had previously met.

The allegation recalls a case in Anne Arundel County where a police officer fondled an 18-year-old's breasts and took cell phone camera pictures. The rookie officer, Joseph Francis Mosmiller, was stripped of his badge and convicted of misconduct in office, serving six days in jail.

That woman and another who said Mosmiller also groped her sued the officer in federal court; records show that case was settled for an undisclosed sum in March 2009.

dont you just love MD.  its like were trying to turn into illinois

Serve and protect and rape and loot.
Oh, write me a speeding ticket every once in a while when you're not busy raping.

Glad I left that shit hole (PG County) when I did.

Wish I could talk my Dad into leaving too.

I wish i could leave PG county

Then again Montgomery isn't much better

2 years and school's over, I'm out.

Oh and let's give a big round of applause for the thin blue line here as well:

You may remember this one

glad to see you guys leaving instead of trying to improve the situation here.... thanks
Also, I know this may not matter in GD's public court but has the Baltimore Police been charged with anything? Nope. Allegations...

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Lived in Charles County and PG County for 8 years while stationed at Andrews AFB in the 90's.  My best memory of the place was when it was in my rear-view mirror as I crossed the 301 bridge southbound never to return when I PCS'd in 2001.  The place is a shithole.

Dam, the cops in those right wing, conservative states are such ass holes.