Sex sting nets Livingston deputy

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By DAVID J. MITCHELL
Advocate Florida parishes bureau
Published: Jun 7, 2007 - Page: 1b

HAMMOND — A Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputy was arrested Tuesday for allegedly soliciting a Hammond police detective posing as a 15-year-old girl on the Internet, authorities said.

Livingston Parish deputies and Hammond police officers arrested Wilbur Keith Crum, 48, 35111 Beaver Stream Drive, Denham Springs, at a Hammond convenience store on U.S. 190 East, authorities said Wednesday.

Crum’s conversations with the undercover detective via computer had been going on since September and were sexual in nature, Livingston Parish deputies said.

Crum arranged for the meeting location and was waiting for the supposed teen to arrive when he was arrested, Hammond Assistant Police Chief Kenny Corkern said.

Crum, who worked at the Livingston Parish Jail, is being held in the Tangipahoa Parish Jail on a $100,000 bond, Livingston Parish deputies said.

Crum was booked on a count of computer-aided solicitation of a minor. The four-year deputy was terminated Tuesday, said Jason Ard, spokesman for the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office. “As soon as we found out he committed a crime, he was terminated from the Sheriff’s Office,” Ard said.

Since last June, Hammond police have been conducting undercover operations on the Internet looking for predators, Corkern said. Those efforts have led to 52 arrests, he said.

Ard said deputies don’t believe Crum used a Sheriff’s Office computer because he wasn’t issued one as a correctional officer.

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Those people will never learn!

[countybear]

Hey, its Livingston... poor guy needed a break from his sister and wanted some 'strange'...