Officer arrested for child porn

GLOUCESTER COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) - A civilian police officer from Norfolk Naval Shipyard was arrested Thursday for child pornography and sending improper messages to a teen girl.

According to Sheriff D.W. Warren with the Gloucester County Sheriff's Office, a 17-year-old victim and her mother contacted authorities Jan. 14 regarding a text message the teen received from a man she had met online last year.

Warren said that man, 39-year-old John Andrew Steele, had been texting back and forth with the teen since they met online in December. The teen and her mother allege in a text message, Steele asked the teen to send him nude pictures of herself.

When authorities arrived to Steele's Virginia Beach home Wednesday evening, they found "digital evidence," and charged Steele with two counts of child pornography.

He was also charged on two counts of use of a communications device to solicit a minor for certain sexual offenses in relation to the text message sent to the Gloucester teen.

Steele is behind bars without bond.