Carlsbad Police Officer Convicted
Written by admin on December 23, 2009
A retired California Highway Patrol lieutenant from Carlsbad was convicted yesterday in Orange County of attempting to commit unlawful sexual acts with a person he thought was a 13-year-old girl.
Steven Robert Deck, 55, was taken into custody and will not be allowed to post bail. He faces a maximum sentence of four years in prison at a sentencing hearing set for Jan. 22.
Deck was arrested in 2006 with 12 other men during a sting operation by Laguna Beach police that targeted older men trying to meet young girls over the Internet. He had been free on bail.
The former lieutenant was working in the CHP’s southern Orange County office at the time of his arrest. He previously had worked in San Diego, said Deputy District Attorney Robert Mestman, who is prosecuting the case in Santa Ana.
He retired the day after his arrest. Now he’ll be spending his retired years in a jail cell – rightfully so!
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