An Elgin police officer was sentenced for three third-degree felony counts of child pornography possession.
A Bastrop County jury sentenced Orval Roger Miller to three years in prison for the first charge, 10 years probation on the remaining charges and a fine of $10,000.
According to the Office of the Texas Attorney General, a Bastrop County grand jury indicted Miller in Sept. 2007 after he left a thumb drive containing child pornography in a police department computer.
A fellow Elgin police officer allegedly found the thumb drive, which also contained Miller’s resume and other personal documents, and reported it to the police chief.
"Possessors and distributors of child pornography abuse children not only when images are made – but the cycle of abuse continues each time an image is viewed," Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said in a statement.
The arrest and sentencing comes as part of Attorney General Abbott's campaign, launched in 2003, to target online predators and sexual offenders.
