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Cops: Ga. 911 worker had thousands of child porn images

Timothy Dale Turner (Credit: Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)
Timothy Dale Turner (Credit: Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)
By Steve Burns
Feb 23, 2017

A communications technician in the 911 center of the Columbus Police Department was found with thousands of child porn images, officials said Thursday.

Homeland Security and Columbus police searched the home of Timothy Dale Turner, 28, on Tuesday morning, the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported.

Officials found the images downloaded on Turner’s computer, police said.

Homeland Security contacted Columbus police in late January about a computer IP address that might be connected to child porn, Columbus police detective Amanda Hogan testified in a court hearing Thursday.

Turner pleaded not guilty to five counts of sexual exploitation of children, the newspaper reported. He is in the Muscogee County jail on bonds totaling $75,000.

Turner has been in the 911 job for about 18 months, the newspaper reported.

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