Florida investigators caught a police officer from southeastern Colorado in an undercover child solicitation sting, state officials announced Wednesday.
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Dustin Dwayne Martin, a 37-year-old officer with the Springfield Police Department, is accused of using social media to solicit sexual activity from someone he believed to be a minor, according to a news release from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
That “minor” was actually a fake Snapchat account run by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office’s Sex Crimes Unit, which Florida law enforcement used to identify people trying to solicit children online, Colorado investigators said.
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Martin faces one charge of internet luring of a child, a felony, and has been placed on unpaid administrative leave pending the investigation, CBI officials said.
As of Thursday, Martin was still listed as a certified officer in the Colorado Peace Officer Standards and Training database. His next court date had not yet been scheduled.
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This is a developing story and may be updated.
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