By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A Border Patrol agent is accused of posing as a boy online to pressure girls for nude photos and to share sexually explicit messages.
Micah Mardo, 36, faces a federal sex crime after he was arrested last week at a northwest Washington state Border Patrol station, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports.
The FBI began investigating after a tipster reported that Mardo’s wife found disturbing images and messages on her husband’s computer.
Investigators said Mardo used the Kik app to contact young teen girls for nude photos. The FBI said he also sent obscene images of himself.
Blaine sector Chief Patrol Agent Brian Martin said the federal agency is cooperating with the FBI probe.
“A vast majority of the men and women employed with our agency meet this high standard day in and day out,” Martin said by email. “As public servants, our agents are rightly held to a higher standard of conduct and are subject to the same laws and rules that apply to private citizens.”
