A 20-year-veteran of the Waltham Police Department who hit it big with a $1 million lottery jackpot in 2011 is facing a child pornography charge after he admitted to the FBI that he sent and received obscene images of young girls online, according to officials and court records.
Paul Charles Manganelli Jr., 46, of Waltham, had his lottery dreams shattered Monday when he was arrested on the charge and had to appear in federal court in Boston Tuesday. He did not enter a plea and was ordered held without bail pending a detention hearing Thursday.
Neither a federal prosecutor nor Manganelli’s lawyer, Peter Bella, discussed details of the case in court. Bella declined to comment afterward.
Manganelli acknowledged that he received and sent illicit images and claimed that “he was doing research in an attempt to identify perverts online,” FBI Special Agent Eric S. Slaton wrote in a criminal complaint.
However, Waltham police said that Manganelli was never assigned to investigate child pornography....
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"Waltham police officer facing child porn charges is released on bail
The Waltham police officer arrested by FBI agents Tuesday on federal child pornography charges has been released to the custody of his parents on a $50,000 bond with court-ordered conditions, said the US attorney’s office. Officials said Paul Manganelli, 46, was placed under house arrest with a monitoring bracelet and ordered to stay away from victims, minors, and his girlfriend. Manganelli was also ordered not to use computers, smartphones, guns, and was ordered to give up his job as a disc jockey, the US attorney’s office said. Manganelli, a 20-year veteran of the force, is accused of sending and receiving child pornography via his Yahoo e-mail account, prosecutors said."
Why does the FBI keep releasing him?
