A man from Cumming who formerly worked for law enforcement agencies in metro Atlanta was arrested Monday for possession of child pornography.
Arthur Durand Handley Jr., 42, was the subject of a GBI investigation that lasted nearly a month. Working with GBI, the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office investigated Handley for child exploitation and eventually obtained a search warrant of his home and computers.
Handley was charged with five counts of sexual exploitation of children, distribution of child pornography and possession of child pornography. The investigation into Handley began on April 6.
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The police report and other information about the investigation is off limits right now due to the age of the victims, a spokesperson for the Forsyth Sheriff’s Office said.
Handley's LinkedIn profile says he most recently worked as an account manager for LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Alpharetta from October 2016 to January 2018.
Before that, his profile says he worked for law enforcement agencies in Alpharetta, Smyrna and Albany from June 2000 to Oct. 2016.
A spokesperson for the city of Alpharetta confirmed Handley was a police officer for the city’s department of public safety from 2008 to 2016, and left via a voluntary resignation.
“We’ve not had any affiliation with him since then,” the spokesperson emailed.
His file with Georgia’s Peace Officer Standards and Training Council (POST) indicates that he worked as a jailer in Dougherty County in 1996, was a police officer in Albany from 2000 to 2002, and worked with Smyrna and Cobb County police departments from 2002 to 2008.
On Oct. 8, 2012, Handley completed training for “child abuse investigations” according to his POST records.
Handley’s LinkedIn also says he was a United States Navy officer from 1993 to 1996.
Handley is still being held at a Forsyth County jail.
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