Disturbing details emerge in arrest

Doyle was arrested Tuesday night in Maryland.

The Department of Homeland Security's deputy press secretary, Brian Doyle, is accused of trying to seduce a 14-year-old girl over the Internet who turned out to be a Polk County Sheriff's Office computer crimes detective.

Polk deputies said much of the information gathered in their investigation is inappropriate for public release. The 55-year-old Doyle was arrested at his Maryland home Tuesday night.

Police reports indicate for several days and weeks, Doyle used America Online (AOL) to engage the fictitious teenage girl in sexually explicit conversations.

Investigators said Doyle would send the girl hardcore pornographic web videos and even tried to convince her to buy her own web camera so she could take explicit photos and videos of herself.

Investigators also said Doyle ordered the underage girl to perform sex acts while thinking about him and described explicitly and perverse sexual acts he wanted to perform on her.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd described the disturbing nature of what investigators have discovered.

Evidence was taken from Doyle's home as he was arrested.

"It was so shocking and so outrageous and so without caution that it shocked all of us who have worked vice narcotics, organized crime and homicides," Judd said. "Normally they are much more reserved in their conversation. He was bold from the beginning."

Maryland investigators were seen taking box loads of evidence from Doyle's home during his arrest. All evidence recovered will be sent to Polk County.

Doyle appeared before a Washington judge Wednesday to hear the charges against him. His 23 felony counts carry a sentence of 115 years. Seven of the counts allege he used a computer to seduce a child and 16 of them involve transmission of harmful material to a minor. He's being held without bond as he awaits extradition to Florida.

The state attorney's office in Polk County is working quickly to build its case against him.

"We were knocking on his door as he was preparing to see this 14-year-old girl on a web cam," Capt. Rebecca Schreiber of the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. "If someone from the Department of Homeland Security was online soliciting a child, what else was he doing?"

Captain Rebecca Schreiber details the how Polk Sheriff's Office expedited its investigation once it knew who Doyle was.

It's a question local investigators are wasting no time answering.

State Attorney Jerry Hill said the investigation and arrest were expedited once they realized who Doyle was. It does not appear any security breeches were made during the conversations online, but an investigation is looking into it.

"The crime is not that uncommon," Hill said. "It is the nature of the position this individual filed."

Since 2004, the Polk County Sheriff's Office has arrested 17 child predators through online stings. Doyle is by far the most high-profile suspect.

Information from Bay News 9's partner, the Lakeland Ledger, was used in this report.




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