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Michael Meissner Former Police Chief Arrest for Child Pornography
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by Scott Wu | September 17, 2009 at 12:05 pm
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Former Caney City police chief Michael Meissner was arrested for soliciting nude photos from a 17-year-old. Meissner faces 6 felony charges, including possession or propmotion of child pornography, engaging in organized criminal activity, misuse of official information, and obstruction or retaliation.
UPDATE: According to Jamille Bradfield, public information officer for Dallas County District Attorney's office, felony charges have been dropped.
According to a spokeswoman with Tarrant County District Attorney's Office, no charges have been filed in Tarrant County
Michael Meissner, 39, allegedly posed as a woman on MySpace to solicit nude photos of teenage boys. Some boys who sent photos to Meissner appear to have criminal records, which led investigators to believe Meissner had used his position as police chief to find potential victims.
Michael Meissner had been charged back in 2006 for a different incident, but the case was dropped.
One investigator said that in 2006, while Meissner was police chief in Caney City, a 15-year-old boy spent the night with him without his parents’ knowledge or consent and looked at pornography stored in a police computer. The teen told one of Meissner’s friends what had happened and began to get threats from Meissner, the affidavit said.
This time, investigators had obtained more than 4,900 text messages and emails. The messages include numerous pornographic pictures and references to sexual acts with boys and videotaping.
A 17-year-old has agreed to be a witness.
Those text messages show that Meissner filmed at a residence off Collins Street in Arlington. The text messages also describe the use of narcotics, the promotion of prostitution and other illegal activities, the affidavit said. A 17-year-old has agreed to be a witness for the state, according to the affidavit.
If Meissner is convicted on all 6 charges, he could be sentenced to 110 years in prison and a $70,000 fine.
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at 09:38 on September 18th, 2009
It is about time this crooked cop is off the force, and further off the streets. He has gotten away with so many criminal acts in the past because of unqualified DA's such as Donna Bennett who allowed Meissner to continue to perform crimninal acts without ANY threat of prosecution. Hopefully the Judicial System will put this louse of a human being away for the remainder of his natural born life. Good Job to the Departments who conducted the investigation and completed the arrest. It has been a long time coming Det. Hoskins, but hopefully all your hard work will pay off.
at 12:42 on September 24th, 2009
Hoskins, Suggest you check out the Mayor of Little River Academy. Meissner isa an amateur by comparison for his (the mayor's) various nefarious acts. He is acting as Magistrate, supervises community service for pay, his son picks up city garbage, his ex-wife and daughter do cleaing at city hall.
at 09:00 on September 25th, 2009
All charges have been dropped against Mr. Meissner.
at 11:03 on September 25th, 2009
Hi Russ, thanks for the update.
Hope there was more information on why the charges were dropped.
at 13:47 on September 28th, 2009
Yes, the charges have been dropped. The Mayor is still trying to "hang" Meissner. Meanwhile the Mayor is also attacking anyone who disagrees with his Napoleanic efforts to run the city to suit himself. Also known as the "law south of Temple". He is just a disagreeable little bully.
at 07:44 on November 11th, 2009
Updates about the case involving Combine, Texas' police department can be found here: www.KaufmanCountyO.comA dirty cop got away because of dirty cops in Combine. It's a sickening cycle.
at 23:51 on November 27th, 2009
The Cops weren't dirty in Combine. Joey Dauben posts because in all actuallity he was being paid by Meissner and his own threats got him arrested.