St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS — A former Missouri corrections officer is facing a series of child pornography charges.
Greg A. Tarpley, 55, of St. Clair, Mo., was indicted Jan. 27 on one charge of receipt of child porn and four charges of child porn possession.
He has not returned a call seeking comment.
The indictment claims that he received and possessed the images between Aug. 1, 2014, and Oct. 9, 2014.
A Department of Corrections spokesman, David Owen, said that Tarpley worked at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center in Pacific from Dec. 27, 2005, to Oct. 21, 2014.
Owen declined to provide information about why Tarpley left, or even confirm that he was the same person as had been charged. The Post-Dispatch confirmed it last week with Tarpley’s lawyer.
Tarpley has a deadline of next week to file motions challenging the evidence in his case.
State records list him as a corrections officer I in 2014, earning nearly $25,000 before he left. He earned nearly $29,000 the year before.
The investigation began on Aug. 15, 2014, when Officer Jacob Walk of the then-St. Charles County Sheriff’s department found a computer on a peer-to-peer file sharing website that appeared to be offering child porn. Walk downloaded 59 files and traced the IP address, according to a police report of the incident.
A photo of Tarpley was not immediately available.
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