Dirty Cops Getting Caught…Again.

So as I browse around the internet I find stories that are funny, amazing, or just completely disgusting. The last cop got caught on tape taking files from a lawyer, but this new story is just on sick cop.

Meet Alan C. Vigiard, 45, a veteran of the Adams Police force, who was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography. According to the police report Vigiard allegedly downloaded and viewed child pornography while in the evidence room of the police department.

He has since been placed on administrative leave and plead not guilty to the child pornography charge on Friday.

The Police Chief Donlad Poirot states that the detective unit began investigating after a folder that contained 153 pictures of male and females “clearly under the age of 18” were copied onto CD’s with evidence for a different case and sent to the County district attorney’s office.

To take things further, included in the images folder, were videos of a unidentified man “man-handling” his business. He was unidentified, due to his face not being clearly visible, but the background was clearly the evidence room from the police station.

According to the police, the man in the video had a distinctive scar on his left hand and it just happened to match a scar on a fellow employee…Vigiard. Now Vigiard is only one of four people with access to the evidence room.

The State Police Digital Evidence Unit investigated the department’s computers and town’s network administrator to track Vigiard’s account. They were able to match up the time stamps reporting access to the kiddie photos to the times that Vigiard had been logged into the computer. He even installed Lime Wire on the pc, but when they looked at the history of searches they found numerous words and phrases common with the searching for child pornography.

Vigiard is scheduled for a pre-trial hearing on the 21st of December. If convicted, he could face up to five years in state prison or two and a half years in county jail, as well as fines ranging from $1,000 to $10,000.

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