A former College Park police officer accused of taking a teenager to a hotel for “casual sex” resigned a week before his arrest.
Villa Rica police arrested David Stephen Block on April 14, not long after the department began its investigation involving two 15-year-old girls claiming to be 18- and 20-year-olds on Internet dating sites, Captain K.L. Shaddix said.
Shaddix said men on the sites were contacted by the girls for sex.
Block, 25, allegedly picked up one of the girls from her neighborhood and took her to a Villa Rica hotel, police said.
The former cop resigned April 4, just two days after the investigation began.
He had been employed by the department for less than a year, College Park Police chief Keith Meadows said. The department did not know that Block was being investigated or charged until several days after his arrest.
Block has since been released from the Carroll County jail on a $65,000 bond. He faces statutory rape, sodomy and enticing a child charges.
“As a decorated law enforcement officer, who comes from a family of people who have served our community by wearing ‘the blue,’ Officer Block strongly believes in the criminal justice system, particularly that every person is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt,” a statement from Block’s lawyer, Jason Swindle, read.
Police are working to identify others involved.
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