BRUNSWICK, Maine — A former Brunswick police officer who pleaded guilty to attempting to send obscene material to a 13-year-old girl will be sentenced Jan. 11, 2017.
Garrett Brosnan, 25, faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Brosnan was arrested June 21 at the Brunswick police station by federal agents.
Prosecutors said they began investigating Brosnan after the parents of a 13-year-old girl in Flagstaff, Arizona, reported in May 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.
An agent with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations posed online as a 14-year-old girl in May and engaged in a conversation with a man identified as Brosnan, who sent the agent nude photos and requested similar photos from the agent, according to an affidavit.
Brosnan resigned from the Police Department on June 25, which his attorney, Michael A. Cunniff, said indicated he was accepting responsibility for his actions and was willing to accept the consequences.
In September, under the terms of a plea agreement, Brosnan pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to transfer obscene material to a minor, and U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II dismissed a second count.
Attorneys on Tuesday held a presentence conference in the chambers of U.S. District Court Justice Jon D. Levy, after which Levy set Brosnan’s sentencing for 10 a.m. Jan. 11, 2017, in U.S. District Court in Portland.