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Video: Video Allegedly Catches Sheriff's Employee Performing Sex Act
1,300 Porn Images Found On Sheriff Employee's Computer
POSTED: 6:10 pm EDT July 24, 2006
UPDATED: 10:45 am EDT July 25, 2006
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- An undercover sting inside the Orange County
sheriff's headquarters found a department employee had more than 1,300
images of porn on his work computer.
Eyewitness News found out he's the son of a sheriff's office commander
who was trying to develop a career in law enforcement and this wasn't the
first time he broke department rules.
At first, deputies said, Thomas Cockriel actually denied loading his
county computer with smut. But when confronted with evidence of the 1,324
images they'd found, he turned in his notice.
Deputies said what Cockriel was doing with his taxpayer-owned computer
could have cost him his job if he hadn't quit first.
"We take these kind of things very, very seriously," said Capt.
Mark Strobridge, Orange County Sheriff's Office.
It was routine maintenance of the sheriff's computer system that did
Cockriel in. Someone in the IT department found hundreds of pornographic
images on Cockriel's personal space on the network.
But agents wanted to be sure he was the one enjoying the porn, so they
set up cameras that caught, from two different angles, the 25-year-old
supply clerk engaged in a sex act in a glassed-in office he shared with
two other people.
"We were all deeply disappointed in his activity and behavior,"
Strobridge said.
It wasn't the first time Cockriel had been in hot water at the sheriff's
office. He was disciplined four times in four years, once for looking at
porn on the web, and that's why he was turned down twice when he applied
for a job not as a civilian employee but as a sworn deputy
sheriff.
"Years down the road he could apply somewhere else. He certainly
would not have the opportunity to apply here at the Orange County
Sheriff's Office," Strobridge said.
While Cockriel wasn't a sworn officer, the sheriff's office said it holds
all its employees to a higher standard.
Eyewitness News tried to find Cockriel on Monday but wasn't able to track
him down.
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