Andrew M. Soloman, Child Pornography, Ohio 2023

A former police chief in Ohio has been sentenced to five years in prison for child pornography crimes.

Andrew M. Soloman, 37, pleaded guilty earlier this year to one count of receiving and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

The crimes took place in 2017, when Soloman was the police chief of Craig Beach Village in Mahoning County, Ohio.

According to court documents, Soloman met the juvenile victim when responding to her residence for calls about harassment and a juvenile runaway. During their interactions, the victim sat in Soloman’s cruiser for several hours and talked.

Soloman provided the victim with his work email address, and the two continued to communicate via text and email. The victim sent Soloman sexually explicit photographs of herself, and Soloman responded by sending sexually explicit photographs via his work email account.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael A. Sullivan following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office, and the Austintown Police Department.

The charges against Soloman include one count of receiving and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. The sentence was handed down recently.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndoh/pr/former-police-chief-village-mahoning-county-sentenced-five-years-prison-child