Former Detective Admits to Transporting Minors for Sexual
Activity on Multiple Occasions
A former detective with the Madison County Sheriff’s Office,
who was most recently assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task
Force, pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Western District
of Virginia in Charlottesville to multiple charges of sexually exploiting
minors. Acting Assistant Attorney
General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and
Acting U.S. Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle for the Western District of Virginia
made the announcement.
Bruce Arlie Harvey, 41, of Reva, Va., pleaded guilty to
three counts of transporting a minor across state lines with the intent to
engage in criminal sexual acts, three counts of interstate travel with minors
with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and one count of possession
of child pornography.
According to the information presented during the guilty
plea hearing, Harvey, while a karate instructor at the Virginia Tong Leong
School of Karate in Madison, began making sexual advances toward the two minor
female victims in this case while they were students at the karate school.
Harvey engaged in illegal sexual acts with these children after he began giving
them private karate lessons and began traveling with each of them to karate
competitions and other events at various out-of-state locations, including
Ocean City, Md. This conduct took place
between 1998 and 2007.
At the time of his arrest on May 3, investigators recovered
a Sony microcassette in a bedroom closet that contained a film clip dated Feb.
14, 2007, that showed one of the victims performing a sexual act with Harvey in
his Madison County home.
The FBI and the Virginia State Police investigated this
case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nancy S.
Healey and Trial Attorney Lauren S. Kupersmith of the Child Exploitation and
Obscenity Section of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division are prosecuting
this case.
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