Top government official arrested

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 its investigation is inappropriate for public release. The fifty-five-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 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.

Grady Judd of the Polk County Sheriff's Office describes the disturbing nature of what investigators have discovered.

"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 along with Doyle to face 23 criminal charges. Seven of which allege he used a computer to seduce a child and 16 counts of transmission of harmful material to a minor.

Doyle has his first appearance hearing today at 1:00 p.m. in Montgomery County, Maryland.





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