An Alabama police officer appears to have lost a friend in law enforcement after being accused of reporting a bogus crime to a police department in another jurisdiction while on duty.
On February 7th, 23-year-old police officer Christopher Eugene Sanspree Jr. montgomery police department, was arrested in connection with charges of filing false incident reports, also known as “swatting,” according to a police press release. Sanspree made at least six swatting-related calls to police over a three-month period last year in Prattville, Alabama, about 25 miles northwest of Montgomery, according to reports.
Prattville Police Chief mark thompson The first call was made on October 30, and the last swatting-related call from Sanspree was claimed to have been made in late December. During these calls, Sanspree lets his imagination fly and creates false incidents where suspects are brandishing machetes, people are breaking into cars, and a man is found shot in the front yard of a home. He is said to have reported.
“These falsely reported incidents are serious in nature and require a significant amount of resources and a significant amount of investigative resources to respond to each call,” a Platteville Police Department press release said. It was necessary,” he said.
Chief Thompson said Sanspree admitted he “thought it was strange.”
But Thompson wasn’t amused. “Frankly, I was pissed,” he told WSFA. “We’ve already done enough about the image of a police officer. Then we have someone do something like this. And he was on duty when he was doing this.”
“It’s very upsetting to me and other law enforcement chiefs who are trying to maintain the image of law enforcement as an honorable profession, and yet these people are still allowing people to pull stunts like this.” Mr. Thompson continued.
Montgomery Police Department Lt. Raymond Carson said Sanspree had been with the department for just over two years and was on patrol when Platteville police arrested him, and has since been on “administrative duty.” He confirmed to the media that he is currently employed.
Sanspree is charged with six counts of falsely reporting incidents in Alabama. But investigators are also looking into whether Sanspree may be involved in similar swatting reports in Georgia, Massachusetts and Wyoming.
He was released from custody. It is unclear when he is next scheduled to appear in court.
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