Judge denies release for imprisoned former Craig Beach Police Chief
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A federal judge has ruled that a former Craig Beach Police Chief serving time for a child pornography conviction cannot go home.
U.S. District Judge John Adams last week denied the compassionate release motion from 38-year-old Andrew Soloman, who is in Danbury Federal Correctional Institution in Connecticut.
Soloman asked judge Adams to set him free and let him go home because he worried about contracting COVID-19 and concerned for his family.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Prison records, Danbury FCI currently has one inmate and two staff members who have tested positive for coronavirus.
When Soloman filed his motion in May, the prison reported that 23 inmates and 15 staff tested positive for coronavirus. One inmate has died.
In denying the motion, Judge Adams ruled that Soloman had not exhausted all administrative remedies available before petitioning the court.
Soloman still has two years left of a five-year sentence after pleading guilty in 2018 to receiving child pornography.
The case involved a juvenile female who, according to authorities, Soloman met when he came to her home in 2017 to investigate reports about harassment and a runaway.
The girl told investigators she sat in Soloman's cruiser for several hours and talked. He provided her with his work email address, according to court documents.
The two continued to communicate via text and email, according to prosecutors.
An affidavit states that the teen said Soloman told her that he was married with children and that he "had a foot fetish."
After the victim sent Soloman sexually explicit photographs of herself, Soloman responded by sending sexually explicit photographs via his work email account, according to court documents.
According to a court filing, Soloman said that "about half" of the photographs were inappropriate and eventually confessed to sending her two photos of himself.
During a search of the Craig Beach Police Department, Soloman's phone and laptop were confiscated.
Court records say Soloman received images of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, including an iPhone which contained child pornography.