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Microsoft tip leads to child porn arrest of Tenino officer, prison system employee

Updated at 8:41 p.m.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

A reserve police officer for the city of Tenino was arrested today for possession of child porn.

The 38-year-old Olympia resident is also currently employed as a community corrections officer with the state Department of Corrections, according to the Washington State Patrol.

State patrol detectives searched his home computer today after getting a search warrant.

Michael C. Boone, 38, Olympia, was arrested after being interviewed at his workplace in Olympia today, according to Sgt. James Mjor.

The case was handled by the state patrol’s Missing and Exploited Childrens Task Force. Mjor is the current acting lieutenant for the unit.

The investigation began with a tip from Microsoft.

Security officers at the Redmond company noticed the electronic signature of well-known and frequently-traded images of child pornography on Boone’s Microsoft SkyDrive account, according to the Washington State Patrol.

SkyDrive is like cloud storage for a person’s photos, documents and other files, which one can access from multiple of their devices.

They turned the information over to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who forwarded it to the state patrol task force, Mjor said.

The task force said this afternoon it had no indication any child porn was stored on Boone’s work computer, but seized it for a forensic examination, and also seized his Tenino Police Department-issued smart phone.

The tip came in last week and initially was just an IP address, Mjor said.

Detectives went to speak with Boone, to see if he had any information he could help them out with, he said. While they were talking with him, other detectives were serving the search warrant at his home for his computer, he said.

Boone was booked into the Thurston County Jail for possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Tenino Mayor Bret Brodersen placed Boone on administrative leave.