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July 15, 2005, 1:12AM
Retired police sergeant accused of accessing child at office
Santiago Salinas left in January after 21 years as a Brownsville police officerAssociated Press
BROWNSVILLE - A retired South Texas police sergeant is accused of downloading child ography on a city-owned computer while he was on duty.
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Santiago Salinas, 48, was indicted on child ography charges by a state grand jury June 22, court records show. He has until Aug. 10 to surrender to authorities, the Brownsville Herald reported in today's edition.
Authorities discovered that the computer was used to access ography after Salinas crashed an unmarked police car in October in San Antonio.
He told police administrators that he used the city-owned vehicle to take his wife and children on a trip. Salinas was suspended for two days for the incident, Brownsville Police Chief Carlos Garcia said.
But the crash prompted an investigation of other city-owned property Salinas used.
The investigation revealed that Salinas' computer was used to access ographic Web sites while on duty. Some of the access involved child ography sites, Garcia said.
Salinas' attorney, Nat Perez, did not return calls for comment.
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