He had a St. Petersburg police department Medal of Valor. And a child porn collection.
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Less than five years after receiving the St. Petersburg Police Department’s highest honor, Matthew Enhoffer will receive a federal prison sentence for receiving and giving child pornography.
Enhoffer pleaded guilty Tuesday in Tampa federal court to possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography. At a date to be set, he’ll get a sentence ranging from five to 20 years.
Before this, Googling Enhoffer’s name would’ve taken a researcher back to Oct. 28, 2015. That’s when Enhoffer received the St. Petersburg Police Department’s Medal of Valor for shooting Austin Lee Goodner, an 18-year-old who opened fire on officers when they came to question him as a suspect in another shooting. According to the Tampa Bay Times’ reporting of the officers’ account of the May 17, 2015, incident, Goodner hit one officer in the leg before being fatally shot by Enhoffer.
Enhoffer had been with the department nine years when a July 18, 2019, Cybertip came from a social media app to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. App user “thehoff727” had uploaded two child pornography photos.
Homeland Security Investigations traced that user to Enhoffer’s home. On Sept. 11, they came with search warrants and left with three laptops, a desktop computer, an iPad and an iPhone belonging to Enhoffer.
Enhoffer’s admission of facts says the computers contained 391 child porn photos, seven child porn videos and 293 pieces of child erotica. Some showed children raped by vaginal sex, others with children raped by forced oral sex and still others with children in bondage.
This story was originally published February 11, 2020 at 9:22 PM.
