BRUNSWICK, Maine — Under terms of a plea agreement, a former Brunswick police officer pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Wednesday to one count of attempting to send nude photos to an Arizona teenager.
Garret Brosnan, 25, now of Brunswick, waived indictment in U.S. District Court in Portland prior to his plea, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II.
In exchange, Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig M. Wolff dismissed one of two initial charges of attempting to transfer obscene material to a minor and agreed to make a nonbinding recommendation to the court for a reduced sentence, according to court documents.
Brosnan faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, followed by up to three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.
He was arrested June 21 at the Brunswick Police Station by federal agents.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations started investigating Brosnan in May after the parents of a 13-year-old girl in Flagstaff, Arizona, reported that in October 2015, their daughter had a five-day online conversation that was sexual in nature with a man who told her he was 19 years old, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court.
A federal agent subsequently posed online as a 14-year-old girl and engaged in a conversation with a man identified as Brosnan, who sent nude photos to the agent and requested similar photos from the agent, according to the affidavit.
On June 2, Brosnan sent the investigator a photo of himself exposing his genitals.
He resigned from the Brunswick police department on June 25.
Brosnan will be sentenced following completion of a presentencing investigation by the U.S. Probation Office.