From: "Rich Gauszka" 


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190604,00.html

MIAMI - The deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security was arrested Tuesday for using the Internet to seduce what he
thought was a teenage girl, authorities said. Brian J. Doyle, 55, was
arrested in Maryland where he lives on charges of use of a computer to
seduce a child and transmission of harmful material to a minor. The charges
were issued out of Polk County, Fla.

Doyle, of Silver Spring, Md., had a sexually explicit conversation with
what he believed was a 14-year-old girl whose profile he saw on the
Internet on March 14, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

The girl was an undercover Polk County Sheriff's Computer Crimes detective,
the sheriff's office said.

Doyle sent the girl pornographic movie clips and had sexually explicit
conversations via the Internet, the statement said.

During other online conversations, Doyle revealed his name, that he worked
for the Homeland Security Department and offered his office and government
issued cell phone numbers, the sheriff's office said.

Doyle also sent photos of himself to the girl, but authorities said they
were not sexually explicit.

On several occasions, Doyle instructed her to perform a sexual act while
thinking of him and described explicit activities he wanted to have with
her, investigators said.

Doyle later had a telephone conversation with an undercover deputy posing
as the teenager and encouraged her to purchase a web camera to send graphic
images of herself to him, the sheriff's office said.

He was booked into Maryland's Montgomery County jail where he was waiting
to be extradited to Florida, the sheriff's office said.

Doyle could not be reached by phone at the jail for comment.

Homeland Security press secretary Russ Knocke in Washington said he could
not comment on the details of the investigation. "We take these
allegations very seriously, and we will cooperate fully with the ongoing
investigation," Knocke said.

Doyle, who is the fourth-ranking official in the department's public
affairs office, was expected to be placed on administrative leave Wednesday
morning.

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