A sergeant with the Baltimore Police Department pleaded guilty to federal charges of possession of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland announced today.

According to the plea, Sgt. James Robert Wissmann IV started using fake email addresses and names in 2017 to log onto an app, where he could join rooms to message and send media files and discuss “child exploitation,” federal prosecutors said.

The app kicked Wissmann, 35, off the platform and reported his activity to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), but he would use fake email addresses and names to create new accounts.

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