A veteran California Highway Patrol officer is on administrative leave after being arrested this week on suspicion of transmitting child pornography. Placer County sheriff's detectives arrested Patrick Francis Cooney Jr., around 4 p.m. Monday. An ongoing investigation revealed that Cooney, 54, allegedly sent child pornography that depicts sexual acts involving persons under 18, officials said. Authorities searched his Auburn residence and seized his electronic devices. "CHP is aware of the arrest of one of its officers by the Placer County Sheriff Department for alleged behavior that occurred while the employee was off duty," Chief Janice Mulanix of the CHP Valley Division in Sacramento said in a statement.

A Placer County man was taken into custody Friday on suspicion of flying a drone into a firefighting effort northeast of Sacramento. Information posted on social media helped lead to the arrest of Eric Wasser, 57, of Foresthill. Cal Fire officers took him into custody, booked him into the Placer County Jail in Auburn and charged him with interfering with firefighting operations, a misdemeanor. He also could face prosecution from federal authorities for violating restricted air space, said Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Berlant said the arrest over a drone's interference with firefighting was a first in California.

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