Another cop arrested for child porn


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.