07/12/2008

Associated Press

A former Corvallis police officer who once posed for pictures with women at a college lingerie party has pleaded guilty to misconduct in a plea bargain over charges he had an on-duty affair with an Oregon State student and lied about it to superiors.

The pleas Friday put 27-year-old Ryan Thayer on probation for two years and require 40 hours of community service. Four of six charges were dismissed and one was downgraded to a misdemeanor.

That case was unrelated to the party. Police say Thayer and another officer investigated a noise complaint and posed for photos that wound up on the online social networking site MySpace.com.

An internal investigation concluded the officers violated departmental policies.

He resigned in April 2006.

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