03
December
DETECTIVE ACCUSED OF HAVING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Vincent Alvarez, a 32-year-old New York City detective was arrested yesterday and charged with illegally possessing child pornography. He ordered the pornography from a bogus company that was part of a police and Postal Service sting last May when an investigator mailed him a list of videotapes and an order form, and the detective ordered three child-pornography tapes from the list. It is not known why the detective was singled out and the criminal complaint does not give the reason, Alvarez was arrested yesterday and suspended from the police ford,