A former Elizabethtown Police Department officer has been federally sentenced for a second time on child pornography charges.
According to Michael Bennett, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky, 54-year-old Brian Leasor, of Elizabethtown, was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison followed by a life term of supervised release for accessing, with intent to view, child pornography.
Federal officials said that Leasor was serving a 10-year term of supervised release after pleading guilty to receiving child pornography. While on supervised release, Leasor was enrolled in a monitoring program for his cellular phone.
On October 22, 2018, Leasor’s internet history and computer search terms were reviewed through the monitoring company. His supervising U.S. Probation Officer (USPO) conducted a follow-up review and discovered Leasor had searched the internet for sexually explicit terms related to young females.
After reviewing the information from the monitoring software, USPOs conducted a search at Leasor’s residence in Elizabethtown and found several unauthorized digital items, including a cellphone, which was seized for additional forensic examination by the U.S.Secret Service.
The examination revealed 40 specific searches involving terms associated with child sexual exploitation that occurred between August and October 2018, again, while Reason was on supervised release. The websites and URLs visited in connection with these searches involved child porn.
Leasor’s latest child porn convictions are not his first brush with sexually illicit behavior — In May 2004, he was arrested after exposing himself to students being transported to West Hardin Middle School on three separate occasions. He was also arrested in 2004 on child porn charges.
Leasor was an Elizabethtown officer between 1995 and 2004.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
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