Bruce police officer fired after arrest on child porn charges
A Bruce police officer was fired, a day after he was arrested by the FBI and charged with possessing child pornography.
47-year-old Corey Harrelson of Bruce, was arrested Thursday following a raid of his Calhoun County home. He was booked into the Lafayette County jail on federal charges around 4 p.m. .
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that the FBI was monitoring Harrelson’s online activity with a network known to share child pornography for at least three months. Harrelson downloaded 32 files in late March.
FBI agents raided Harrelson’s house Thursday. He admitted to agents he owned a computer that contained child porn files. The computer was found hidden in a dresser in the house.
Harrelson was taken to the federal courthouse in Oxford and appeared before Magistrate Jane Virden by video. The judge ordered Harrelson detained until the July 5 preliminary examination and detention hearing.
The Bruce Board of Aldermen held a special called meeting Friday to terminate Harrelson.
