Sheriff's captain arrested for distributing child porn gets no jail time
ASHLAND, Va. (AP) — ASHLAND, Va. (AP) — A sheriff's captain who was originally charged with distributing child pornography has pleaded guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor, receiving no jail time in turn.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports 40-year-old Donny Lewis Dixon entered in a written agreement Wednesday to be convicted on the misdemeanor charge.
He was arrested in June after investigators executed a search warrant. But defense attorney Peter Baruch says there was no document or image showing his client possessed anything illegal on his computer.
Baruch says the legal teams avoided a trial by agreeing to something that didn't involve sex offender registration.
Dixon's 12-month jail sentence has been suspended, providing he complete therapy and treatment, and avoid unsupervised contact with unrelated minors.
He resigned from his Chesterfield County post shortly after his arrest.
