Not tech related at all, just felt like writing this one up. Found out a few hours ago (via VCU e-mail) that our police chief has been arrested in Chesterfield County on charges of soliciting underage sex. The Washington Post has already reported on the story, as have several local publications. Of course, VCU has already done the expected: placing him on administrative leave and issued a statement saying that Chesterfield’s finest have VCU’s full cooperation.

For what it’s worth: the Chesterfield police have been (and this is no secret) using Craigslist and other such services to handle sting operations in recent months. Trying to catch pedophiles and such. Wouldn’t the police chief of VCU know better? *sigh* And to think this week was going to end without some mess in Richmond about something remarkably stupid.

[Just to clarify the situation: Chesterfield is a county about 20 minutes south of the city of Richmond. Virginia is fun in that we have incorporated cities, they don't exist within counties like pretty much everywhere else. Richmond has its own police. VCU has its own fully-certified and trained police force, separate from the city's.]