A former Eagle Grove police officer has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and given a two-year suspended prison sentence after originally being charged with sexual exploitation and sending obscene material to a minor.
In December 2024, the Eagle Grove Police Department asked the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation for assistance to examine a complaint against one of their officers, 27-year-old Colt Richardson. Richardson was arrested in January 2025 and charged with dissemination and exhibition of obscene material to a minor after the DCI said he used Snapchat to send explicit images to an underage person, with one instance being while he was on duty.
The Wright County Attorney’s would later add a sexual exploitation of a minor charge, alleging he possessed materials depicting the minor engaged in a prohibited act.
In January, Richardson pleaded guilty to two counts of telephone dissemination of obscene material to a minor as well as first-degree harassment, all aggravated misdemeanors.
He was sentenced to 30 days in jail on one of the two obscene material charges and given two-year suspended sentences on the other charges. Richardson must also serve one-year on probation.
