Former cop charged in Internet luring dies
Posted July 29, 2011 5:44 pm.
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A former police detective who was charged with luring a child over the Internet earlier this week has died.
Doug Bronson, 51, was found dead in his home in Peterborough, Ont., police said Friday.
A coroner has been called in to investigate what police describe was a sudden death.
On Tuesday, police arrested Bronson in Durham Region after he reportedly set up a meeting with an undercover officer that he thought was a girl.
They seized thumb drives, hard disks and other items from his home.
Bronson, who resigned from the force in 1998, appeared in a Lindsay court on Wednesday to face charges of luring a child via a computer, sexual exploitation and invitation to sexual touching of a person under 16 years of age.
The Kawartha Lakes OPP say they had been investigating him since January after the family of a Lindsay girl called police about a man having an inappropriate conversation with her.
With files from The Canadian Press