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A former Tremonton police officer who already was prosecuted in Utah state court for creating a fake pornography email account and convincing a teenage girl to send him nude photos is facing more legal trouble.
A federal grand jury indicted 38-year-old Jeremy Rose this week on three counts connected to the same case. Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for Utah had received a waiver from the Department of Justice that allowed them to pursue federal charges against Rose.
The indictment — which was returned Wednesday and unsealed Thursday — charges 38-year-old Jeremy Rose with production of child pornography, possession of child pornography and coercion and enticement. He was arrested Thursday morning and released in the afternoon after an initial appearance in U.S. District Court. He will be monitored electronically.
U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber said his office sought the waiver because the prior prosecution "left substantial federal interests unvindicated."
"There are areas of criminal law where we share concurrent jurisdiction with state prosecutors," Huber said. "Production and possession of child pornography is one of those areas."
The federal indictment says the alleged crimes occurred between spring 2012 and June 2013, but it gives few other details.
According to a probable cause statement filed in state court, Rose told a then-15-year-old girl that she could make some money by submitting photos to a pornography website.
Rose then told the teen to send nude and partially nude photos to an email address that he said belonged to an employee named "Tom," the probable cause statement said. But state prosecutors allege the email account was fake — created by Rose to solicit the photos from the teen.
The teen told investigators that she sent about 150 nude photos of herself to "Tom." The investigators said they later found 197 nude or partially nude images of the girl in a file-hosting account, which was registered under the email address Rose is accused of creating.
Rose pleaded guilty in Utah's 2nd District Court — where the case was transferred because the judge in Box Elder County recused himself, noting he was acquainted with the former officer — to seven charges.
Rose faced up to 30 years in prison but was sentenced in November 2014 to 270 days in jail, 36 months of probation and 60 hours of community service. He was ordered to complete an intensive inpatient sex-offender-therapy program, if accepted into the program and if bed space were available, and to get outpatient counseling if he didn't get into the program.
The maximum penalties for the federal charges are 30 years in prison, with a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years, for production of child pornography; 10 years for possession of child pornography; and 30 years with a mandatory minimum sentence 10 years for enticement and coercion.
Tremonton police have said Rose has not been employed by the department since July 2013.
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