Las Vegas police officer
arrested for possession of child pornography
By Joyce Lupiani, Spencer
Lubitz. CREATED Oct 23, 2014 - UPDATED: Oct 23, 2014
Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) -- A Las
Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer has been put on unpaid
administrative leave after being arrested for possession of child pornography.
According to LVMPD, 37-year-old
James Henry was arrested on Oct. 23 after he voluntarily surrendered to
investigators at the Clark County Detention Center.
Henry is being charged with 10
counts of possession of child pornography and 10 counts of distribution of
child pornography.
The investigation into Henry
began on Oct. 2 by the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and Internal
Affairs Bureau.
Henry will remain on unpaid
leave pending the outcome of the allegations.
Henry has been a police officer
with LVMPD since 2002. He is currently assigned to the Patrol Division,
Convention Center Command.
Google notified the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children that one of its users uploaded a
sexual image of an underage child.
According to the arrest report,
the computer address was traced back to Henry.
Officers found 10 images of
nude children on his computer, all of them underage boys. Some were engaging in
sex acts with adults.
Police said they always
investigate reports of officer misconduct, but they said reports like this are
very rare.
"We receive information,
we receive tips, we receive allegations of misconduct, we follow up on every
single one of those to see if there is administrative misconduct and criminal
misconduct, so we're always looking at that and we take any allegation against
our officers very serious," said Deputy Chief Al Salinas.
Salinas and his team will be
overseeing the criminal investigation into Henry and determining whether any
more charges will be filed.
Meanwhile, police will be
conducting an internal investigation to determine whether Henry acted
inappropriately on the job.
