In May 2017, while on duty, Sergeant Nicholas Shane Osborne, aged 39, met a 15-year-old boy through the Grindr app. He drove the minor in his police cruiser to a church parking lot, where he engaged in deviate sexual intercourse with the boy. Osborne was arrested in 2017 and pleaded guilty in March 2019 to charges including electronic solicitation of a child, sodomy in the second degree, reckless endangerment, and enticing a child for immoral purposes. In March 2019, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. ([trussvilletribune.com](https://www.trussvilletribune.com/2019/03/13/former-oneonta-police-officer-pleads-guilty-to-having-sex-with-child/?utm_source=openai), [wvtm13.com](https://www.wvtm13.com/article/former-oneonta-police-officer-sentenced-for-sex-crimes-involving-teen-boy/27457969?utm_source=openai))

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