Photo: Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office
Maricopa County, AZ- In what has become all too familiar to detectives in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s animal crimes unit, yet another man has contacted an undercover Sheriff’s detective through a popular web site to arrange for sexual liaisons with various farm animals in exchange for sex with his own personal dog.
My Animal Crimes Deputies just arrested a 56YO man in Wickenburg for attempting to have sex with animals.
— Joe Arpaio (@RealSheriffJoe) October 26, 2015
The sexual liaisons and subsequent arrest were to take place last week but car trouble and bad weather delayed the arrangement. An investigation that began in September into 56-year-old James Allen Darland of Mount Vernon Washington, culminated this morning when Dorland made contact with an undercover detective posing as a farmer/ owner of several animals in the Wickenburg area.
According to a press release from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect requested to spend days on the farmer’s property solely for the purpose of having sex with the various animals provided including miniature horses, dogs and goats.
Darland admitted to detectives in emails and in later phone calls that the self described married man has been having sex with his neighbor’s horse, dogs and sheep in the state of Washington for some time.
Darland also stated he just retired from a nationally known package delivery company after working there for over 23 years and when delivering packages for the company, he stated he would often have sex with customers’ dogs while they were absent from the residence while on his route. He also spoke of stray dogs that he would find on his route which he captured to use for sexual gratification.
The Press memo goes on to state, the suspect personally met up with the Sheriff’s undercover detectives today at a location near Wickenburg where he talked in detail about what sex acts he had recently committed with his own dog and what he planned to do with an un-neutered male dog the detectives brought to the scene.
Shortly after he regaled the detective of stories about his delivery route days where he unabashedly engaged in sex acts with customer’s pets, Sheriff’s detectives quickly arrested him. The meeting was recorded and a link is provided below)
Click here to be taken to the YouTube Video of the Sting Operation. WARNING: This video contains graphic language. Viewer Discretion is advised.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio says “We clearly confirmed his intentions to commit this crime by statements, recorded phone calls and videos, e-mails and actions witnessed by my detective, leaving no doubt in his mind that Darland fully intended to carry out his perversion by committing the crime of bestiality.” Darland was booked on Conspiracy to Commit Bestiality (Class 6 Felony) and placed in the 4th Avenue Jail.
A search was executed for Darland’s dog. His dog was seized in the course of the investigation and transported by Animal Crimes Detectives to the Arizona Humane Society for evaluation to determine whether the animal had been sexually abused.
This case marks the 9th arrest of persons committing acts of bestiality by the Sheriff Arpaio’s Office.
Sheriff Arpaio was instrumental in getting the Arizona State legislature to make bestiality a felony in the state of Arizona. Thirty-six other U.S. states have similar laws. Arpaio says bestiality is nothing to make light of. He quotes a study that says 96% of persons who engaged in bestiality also admitted to sexually abusing humans. Another study reported that 72% of juvenile sex offenders admitted to an interest in bestiality. A third study revealed that in up to 40% of judicially ordered seizures in pedophile cases, both child and animal abuse images were discovered.
Source: Click here to be taken to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Press Release PDF
