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Bradenton Officer Resigns After Sending Nude Photos

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Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Published: January 30, 2008

BRADENTON - BRADENTON - A city police officer has resigned and could lose his law enforcement certification after he sent naked pictures of himself to female colleagues, according to internal affairs reports.

Bradenton Police Department Officer Alex Arana, an officer since April 2004, left the department on Dec. 26, before the internal investigation was finished.

The report was sent to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which could yank Arana's police certification over the images.

Officials received an anonymous complaint about the photos in December. They later found that Arana sent a video clip and a photo to the cellular phones of three women: an intern, a dispatcher and a crime scene investigator.

Police say that Arana videotaped himself with his genitals exposed while he wore a SWAT jumpsuit.
But Arana says that the images were meant as a joke, they were not taken while he was on duty and were shared only with his friends.

"It was nothing but a joke," Arana said Wednesday. "What I don't understand is how something that happened off duty, between friends, became such a big deal."

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