By Randy Arrington
LURAY, Oct. 3 — After being terminated from his role as a deputy with the Page County Sheriff’s Office in early August, Shadarryl M. Veney turned himself into Rockingham County authorities last week and was arrested on charges of possession of child pornography following a month-long investigation.
Rockingham County Sheriff Bryan Hutcheson confirmed that Veney turned himself in on Friday, Sept. 29 and was charged with four counts of child pornography. He was released the same day on bond.
Veney, 40, was fired from the Page County Sheriff’s Office on Aug. 8 — the same day that Rockingham County investigators executed a search warrant at his Terrace Gun Road residence in Grottoes.
“This is a Rockingham County investigation so you will need to contact them for further information about the investigation,” Page County Sheriff Chad Cubbage replied to an Aug. 11 inquiry from Page Valley News. “The deputy was immediately terminated upon us receiving the information regarding this investigation.”
A single image of “apparent child pornography” that was uploaded to Veney’s phone on June 15 prompted Verizon Wireless’ cloud-based storage provider to submit the photo and information to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), according to an Aug. 4 report by Rockingham Investigator K.R. Dolph. He received a Cyber Tipline Report from MCMEC on July 20.
“I viewed the image that was submitted to NCMEC by Verizon,” Dolph’s report reads. “The image displayed what appears to be a pre-pubescent female, laying on her back with her [genitalia] exposed.”
The Aug. 4 report by Dolph offered “material facts constituting probable cause that the search may be made.” Synchronoss Technologies Inc., Verizon. [ST] — the cloud-based storage provider for content stored on the Verizon Cloud — also “provided a phone number geo-lookup for the subject phone number with the phone carrier being Verizon Wireless,” according to Dolph’s report. An administrative subpoena was served to Verizon Wireless on July 26 for the subscriber information, which was provided on Aug. 1.
The search warrant was issued and executed on Aug. 8 at Veney’s Grottoes residence, where investigators took 25 items including multiple phones, computers, tablets, electronics and CDs.
Veney, a military veteran, spent two years with the Page County Sheriff’s Office after being employed at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.
The case and investigation remains active, according to Sheriff Hutcheson.
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We tried to be “inclusive” and this is what we get?
What did you say when Daniel W. Presgraves was arrested and convicted?
If you’re talking to me Peters, I said even worse. But here, your logic is flawed.
Why was he not arrested when search was executed….that usually how the law works….special privileges or protecting our sheriff?
If ur talkin about prescribes it was money and privilege. Know him personally