{Charleston, West Virginia}...Former Princeton Police Officer 27 year old Christopher Winkler pleaded guilty Tuesday to one felony count of solicitation of bribery. Police say Winkler was on duty and in uniform when he met a 17 year old boy in the parking lot of a Princeton supermarket on March 1, 2011 and tried to get the boy to perform oral sex on him to pay off a debt owed by the boy. According to a criminal complaint filed in Mercer County Magistrate Court, Winkler threatened to file felony charges against the teenager, saying it would prevent the juvenile from getting a job and ruin the rest of his life, and, if he performed oral sex, he wouldn't call state Child Protective Services on the teen's mother. Winkler will be sentenced December 10th.Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Former Princeton Police Officer Pleads Guilty
{Charleston, West Virginia}...Former Princeton Police Officer 27 year old Christopher Winkler pleaded guilty Tuesday to one felony count of solicitation of bribery. Police say Winkler was on duty and in uniform when he met a 17 year old boy in the parking lot of a Princeton supermarket on March 1, 2011 and tried to get the boy to perform oral sex on him to pay off a debt owed by the boy. According to a criminal complaint filed in Mercer County Magistrate Court, Winkler threatened to file felony charges against the teenager, saying it would prevent the juvenile from getting a job and ruin the rest of his life, and, if he performed oral sex, he wouldn't call state Child Protective Services on the teen's mother. Winkler will be sentenced December 10th.