Naked cop to collect $3G a month
A Milton-based state trooper charged with dancing naked before a webcam for what he thought was a 13-year-old girl has retired and will receive nearly $3,000 an month in pension benefits.
Douglas N. Sversko, 44, of Lewisburg, retired from his $81,620-a-year job shortly after he appeared in a Dauphin County district court to waive his right to a preliminary hearing on felony charges of unlawful contact with a child and criminal use of a communication facility for exposing himself online last spring.
He was suspended without pay the day of his arrest on Feb. 16, paid $100,000 bail for his release from jail and retired in early March after waiving the charges to Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas.
Employed by the state police for 18 years, Sversko has been approved to receive a $2,901 monthly pension.
The latest development in the case has outraged active and retired state troopers.
“Furious” is how one trooper described the response.
None would speak on the record, but one trooper said part of the anger is with the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System, which allows employees facing certain criminal charges to collect benefits until there’s a conviction.
It’s not certain whether Sversko will be allowed to continue collecting a pension if he’s convicted.
A PSERS spokesman was not available Friday and state police spokesman Jack Lewis did not return calls.
— Email comments to mmoore@dailyitem.com
Douglas N. Sversko, 44, of Lewisburg, retired from his $81,620-a-year job shortly after he appeared in a Dauphin County district court to waive his right to a preliminary hearing on felony charges of unlawful contact with a child and criminal use of a communication facility for exposing himself online last spring.
He was suspended without pay the day of his arrest on Feb. 16, paid $100,000 bail for his release from jail and retired in early March after waiving the charges to Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas.
Employed by the state police for 18 years, Sversko has been approved to receive a $2,901 monthly pension.
The latest development in the case has outraged active and retired state troopers.
“Furious” is how one trooper described the response.
None would speak on the record, but one trooper said part of the anger is with the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System, which allows employees facing certain criminal charges to collect benefits until there’s a conviction.
It’s not certain whether Sversko will be allowed to continue collecting a pension if he’s convicted.
A PSERS spokesman was not available Friday and state police spokesman Jack Lewis did not return calls.
— Email comments to mmoore@dailyitem.com
