FORMER PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE TROOPER PLEADS GUILTY

Martin C. Carlson, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced today that Kevin J. Coleman, Sr., age 42, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty before United States Chief Judge Yvette Kane to a one-count information, charging him with obstructing and impeding the due administration of justice while serving in the Pennsylvania State Police.

According to Acting U.S. Attorney Carlson, Coleman was indicted on March 12, 2008 after a joint investigation spearheaded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Pennsylvania State Police found that Coleman, a Pennsylvania State Police trooper assigned to conduct anti-prostitution patrols at the Gables Truck Stop in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was, in fact, warning those involved in prostitution about undercover law enforcement activity, law enforcement wiretaps and law enforcement sweeps and arrests at the truck stop in exchange for sexual favors from young women being prostituted.

The case was investigated by the Harrisburg office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and by the Internal Affairs Division of the Pennsylvania State Police.

A tentative sentencing date has been scheduled for July 9, 2008.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Gordon A. Zubrod.

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