The man who once headed up the Mercer County Drug Task Force has been fined and sentenced to jail after being convicted on charges filed when he was caught in a prostitution sting.

William F. Brown, 58, of Greenville appeared in Columbiana County Municipal Court on Thursday where he pleaded no contest to charges of engaging in prostitution and possessing criminal tools.

As part of a plea agreement, a charge of attempted sexual conduct with an animal was dropped.

Brown was sentenced 180 days in jail, with 120 of those days suspended. He is to begin serving that sixty-day sentence in the county jail on July 15.

Judge Katelyn Dickey fined Brown $800 placed him on probation for two years and ordered that he not possess any new companion animals.

He was ordered to perform 40 hours of community service but is being permitted to buy those hours out for $400.

Brown must take a 12-hour online preventing prostitution course and undergo a mental evaluation.

According to an affidavit, last November Brown answered an ad on a known prostitution website posted by an undercover agent from the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force.

The ad was purportedly from an adult female drug-dependent woman offering sex for hire.

The agent says Brown offered cash for sex, saying he was into bestiality and wanted to bring a dog to have sex with the woman before Brown had sex with her.

The affidavit also alleges that Brown said it was okay for the woman to get high on drugs during the sex acts.

Brown was arrested when he arrived at an agreed-upon location in Ohio.

Pennsylvania Attorney General removed Brown as coordinator of the Mercer County Drug Task Force Coordinator. Brown was also Chief of the West Salem Township Fire Department at the time of his arrest.

. He is to begin serving that sentence in the county jail on July 15.

Judge Katelyn Dickey fined Brown $800 placed him on probation for two years and ordered that he not possess any new companion animals.

He was ordered to perform 40 hours of community service but is being permitted to buy those hours out for $400.

Brown must take a 12-hour online preventing prostitution course and undergo a mental evaluation.

According to an affidavit, last November Brown answered an ad on a known prostitution website posted by an undercover agent from the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force.

The ad was purportedly from an adult female drug-dependent woman offering sex for hire.

The agent says Brown offered cash for sex, saying he was into bestiality and wanted to bring a dog to have sex with the woman before Brown had sex with her.

The affidavit also alleges that Brown said it was okay for the woman to get high on drugs during the sex acts.

Brown was arrested when he arrived at an agreed-upon location in Ohio.

Pennsylvania Attorney General removed Brown as coordinator of the Mercer County Drug Task Force Coordinator. Brown was also Chief of the West Salem Township Fire Department at the time of his arrest.