By Associated Press
Friday, May 29, 2009 11:29 PM
ATLANTA A former police sergeant's husband whose nude photos of young girls led to scandal in the Atlanta Police Department has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
Terrill Marion Crane pleaded guilty Jan. 22 to producing child *advertiser censored*.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/latest/lat_519572.shtml
Note: Oddly, he doesn't show up in state or federal prison.
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Ga. police chief disciplines 3 in cover-up
By Tim Eberly
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ATLANTA Atlanta police Chief Richard Pennington announced Wednesday that he is disciplining three employees, including the internal affairs commander, for their roles in covering up alleged sex crimes involving one of their spouses.
Pennington said the employees could be fired, and that
the highest-ranking officer, Maj. Cerelyn "C.J." Davis, has been demoted to lieutenant and removed as commander of the Office of Professional Standards.
The other employees are Sgt. Tonya Crane and senior crime analyst Randolph Ory. Crane is married to Terrill Marion "T.C." Crane, who was indicted in November 2007 on federal charges of producing child *advertiser censored* involving him and young girls. Ory is a close friend and former roommate of T.C. Crane.
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Crane has been on administrative leave since her husband's arrest. The two others are still working; Davis has been assigned to the Communications Section, which includes 911 dispatchers. Their discipline could come in the next 10 days, after an administrative hearing, Pennington said.
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Davis, while a lieutenant in charge of the Intelligence Unit, ordered two detectives in 2004 to stop looking into Crane's alleged crimes, according to documents in the investigative report.
One of the detectives, Bobby Render, told city investigators that, when he asked Davis how to proceed with the Crane case, she told him to "cut it" and "made a hand gesture in front of her neck," documents show.
Davis denied doing so, but failed a lie-detector test, which she tried to foil by clenching her teeth â an attempt to alter her measurable vocal output, according to police records.
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Crane will be disciplined for destroying several photographs of her husband when she was tipped off to the investigation by an unidentified Atlanta police employee in 2003, according to documents.
A lie detector exam indicated that she was lying when she claimed to not have taken photographs of her husband having sex with juvenile girls, the police reports show. In some of the photos, girls were holding an Atlanta police-issued handgun and what appeared to be an Atlanta police hat.
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By Associated Press
Friday, May 29, 2009 11:29 PM
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Allegations of a coverup led to an internal investigation and the demotion of a police official who was later reinstated by the city's Civil Service Board.
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Atlanta Police Tied to Child *advertiser censored* Case
By BRENDA GOODMAN
Published: November 30, 2007
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Sergeant Crane remains on the payroll, said Judy Pal, a department spokeswoman.
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Note: I cannot find any evidence of further disciplinary action taken against Tanya Crane.