D.C. police officer charged with child pornography found dead in Potomac river

[tina tron]

Last edited Wed Dec 11, 2013, 02:14 PM - Edit history (1)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/man-who-died-after-being-found-in-potomac-is-dc-officer-charged-in-sex-case-police-say/2013/12/11/f8805fca-6256-11e3-91b3-f2bb96304e34_story.html?tid=sm_fb

A man who died after being pulled from the Potomac River Tuesday night has been identified as a D.C. police officer who was arrested and charged last week with producing child pornography, according to a department statement issued Wednesday morning.

Marc Washington, 32, of Waldorf, had been freed from jail on Monday after his lawyer fought with prosecutors for two days over whether the officer should be released pending trial. A federal judge had given the seven-year veteran a 24-hour curfew in his father’s southern Maryland home and forced his father to surrender the deed to ensure that his son would return to court.

Police said that they got a 911 call at about 8:15 p.m. Tuesday from a man. The U.S. Park Police responded to the first block of Ohio Drive SW, at Hains Point, and found an empty car with clothing located nearby.

Police and Fire Department dive teams found a man in the cold river shortly before 9:30 p.m. He was rushed to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to Gwendolyn Crump, the D.C. police department’s chief spokeswoman. Authorities would only say that the investigation was continuing. The police statement did not say how Washington died.

[MineralMan]

1. Looks like he won't be doing that any longer.

No more victims for him.

[leftyohiolib]

2. was he found guilty? only asking cause im not familiar with the story

child porn is used to discredit and jail people. iirc there was a man during the bush admin and i cant remember if it was about the yellow cake or wmds but the first thing that came out against this man was that that kind of pron was found on his laptop. my point is innocent until proven guilty

[Demo_Chris]

3. Good point. Dead now though. nt

[leftyohiolib]

5. can u remember the guy to which i was refering? it slips my mind but since im at work i dont

dare try to look that up right now with pron involved

[Tanuki]

7. You are probably thinking of Scott Ritter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter

[leftyohiolib]

13. thanks nt

[Schema Thing]

9. You are thinking of Scott Ritter, but he was not accused of child pornography

and in fact did do the things he was accused of. Whether or not police should be able to entrap people in the manner they did with him is another question. But there is no evidence he was targeted that I'm aware of.

[leftyohiolib]

12. thanks the name was on the tip of my tongue but couldnt get it out

[MineralMan]

8. Well, I'll guess we'll never know.

He seems to have eliminated that possibility.

[Blue_Tires]

10. Unless of course he was killed to avoid ratting out a wider network...

That's a thought which worries me...

[MineralMan]

11. Again, he will not be contributing additional information, I'm afraid.

Sometimes, things are just as they appear to be.

[Octafish]

4. Anyone remember John Atchison?

A family man, the ASSISTANT US ATTORNEY promised what he thought was the 5-year old girl's mother he wouldn' t hurt the child -- stating he'd done it before. In reality, he was corresponding with an undercover deputy in Michigan. He showed up at the airport with toys. Originally from Alabama, the guy was a riser in the Dixie GOP. Like so many of the evil ilk, after his arrest he tried suicide in jail, the second time successfully.

I wondered if he was friends with Bob Riley, Mark Fuller and the rest of the Alabama Old GOP Boys. What turned up:

The Strange Tale of a Pedophile in the U.S. Justice Department

Legal Schnauzer, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The U.S. Department of Justice generated plenty of strange stories during the George W. Bush years. But one of the strangest involved John David "Roy" Atchison, an assistant U.S. attorney in Pensacola, Florida, who committed suicide after being caught in a pedophilia sting in Detroit.

Atchison's sad story has many connections to Birmingham and Alabama. And it raises this question: How did a guy with a shaky work record and a history of run-ins with the law get hired by the world's supposedly foremost crime-fighting organization? Did Atchison attain his lofty position because he had connections to powerful figures in the Alabama legal world?

Investigative journalist Margie Burns examines these questions, and much more, in a series of posts about the Atchison case at her blog, margieburns.com.

Burns begins with the actions that turned Atchison into a national figure in fall 2007:

This is not the story of a man who engaged in pedophilia for years or decades before being caught. It is the story of a man whipsawed by the strain of living up to a high-achieving family rooted in Birmingham, Ala., whose high-functioning connections assisted him for years in developing a career for which he turned out not to be suited. On Sept. 16, 2007, Assistant U.S. Attorney John David Roy Atchison, serving as a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of Florida, was arrested on credible charges of basically pedophilia. Atchison committed suicide in federal prison Oct. 5.

A dead pedophile might not sound like a tragedy. But Atchison was thought to be participating in a pedophile ring, and his death removed a useful informant from law enforcement resources. The question of how he was enabled to kill himself rather than being preserved for justice is one of the loose ends left hanging in his case.

CONTINUED 'though I wish it didn't...

http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2010/09/strange-tale-of-pedophile-in-us-justice.html

Margie Burns detailed how the guy rose up through the GOP ranks, warts and all. When this is the kind of person putting people behind bars on behalf of Uncle Sam, these are worse than NAZI times.

[HipChick]

6. There were a number of police officers involved - Wonder why only he was 'pushed'

into the Potomac?

[RebelOne]

14. If he were to be found guilty as charged,

he is probably better off dead because his life would have been hell in prison, especially since he was a cop.