DENVER
A Colorado State Patrol officer arrested Friday faces charges of sexual exploitation of a child and Internet luring of a child.
Fort Lupton police said they arrested Justin Tolman at his home in Colorado Springs. Inside Tolman’s home, investigators collected evidence in an Internet sting operation that began in early May.
A Fort Lupton police detective posed online as a 14-year-old girl and was sent sexually explicit photos of men and woman in sexual acts, allegedly by Tolman.
Tolman didn't hide he was a state trooper, said Fort Lupton Detective Crystal Schwartz.
"The first conversation he sent a picture," Schwartz said.
"The picture was of a male in a Colorado State Patrol uniform standing next to a Colorado State Patrol vehicle,” said Fort Lupton Chief of Police Ron Grannis.
"I asked if he was a cop and he said, 'guilty,'" Schwartz said.
Detectives said Tolman instant-messaged the undercover detective and made graphic sexual statements in reference to what would happen when they met.
Fort Lupton police contacted the Colorado State Patrol about their suspicions, and the patrol “cooperated on all levels with the investigation,” Grannis said.
“Our children are our most valuable resource. We must do all we can to protect them from predators. The Internet has unfortunately become the stalking grounds of sexual predators,” he said.
Tolman was booked into the Weld County Jail.
"He is on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation," Colorado State Patrol Sgt. John Hahn told 7NEWS reporter Lane Lyon Friday.
Hahn said Tolman passed an extensive background check at the time he was hired in July of 2007.
Tolman graduated from CSP's training program and was assigned to the State Patrol office in Colorado Springs in December of 2007, Hahn said.
3 comments:
Yes the officer should of known it was wrong to try to have sex with a child on the internet but it is also wrong for the law to encourage and manipulate the people they are abided by law to protect to break the law and blame their corruption on the people.
Not only should the state trooper not being luring children off of the internet but if you look at it from the other side detective Crystal Schwartz is guilty of sexual exploitation of a child so the question here is who is actually wrong here. Crystal Schwartz and all other law officers are just as guilty as people putting child porn on the internet. If a man goes to prison for looking at child porn or internet luring of a child, the law officer should be right beside him cause the law encouraged him to look at it instead if getting rid of the corruption in the first place.
So like the title says what happened to serve and protect.
How can the law be trusted when they encourage people to break the law?
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