Deputy police chief arrested for trying to pay for sex
POLK COUNTY, Fla. — During an undercover investigation, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office took into custody a man who they think tried to pay for sex.
At around 11 o’clock on Thursday night, Jason DiPrima, who just so happens to be the deputy chief of police administration for the Cartersville Police Department in Georgia, was taken into custody.
Around the time in question, it was said that DiPrima was on a trip to Orlando, where he went to an American Polygraph Association seminar.
The agency provides an explanation. DiPrima responded to an online escort advertisement on August 31 and began speaking with an undercover cop. The conversation was recorded. According to the deputies, he questioned things like “Are you available tonight?” and “I’d like to come visit you—What is your rate?”
According to the report, DiPrima consented to engaging in sexual acts with the undercover investigator while they were having chat. The sheriff’s office claims that he later confessed to the officers that he had been “spooked” and had wanted to see her the next evening.
According to the agency, he did get in touch with the investigator once again the following day and promised to travel to a certain area to meet. According to the investigators, DiPrima’s original agreement was to pay $120 for a half hour of “full service” sex.
It is stated that when DiPrima arrived, he handed the undercover cop $180 in cash and a number of cans of White Claw Hard Seltzer. After that, he was taken into custody and sent to the Polk County Jail, where he remained until his subsequent release on bail, which cost him $500.
“The Cartersville Georgia Police Department was notified of the arrest,” the sheriff’s office explains.
According to a statement that was made on the Facebook page of the police department, DiPrima has been put on administrative leave awaiting the outcome of an internal inquiry.
This arrest was made as part of a larger undercover operation against human trafficking that was carried out by the sheriff’s office and other law enforcement agencies over the course of one week.
