Florida investigators caught a police officer from southeastern Colorado in an undercover child solicitation sting, state officials announced Wednesday.
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.
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 . His next court date had not yet been scheduled.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
