By Justin Fenton

Baltimore Sun reporter

4:28 PM EDT, July 10, 2009
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A Baltimore police spokesman has been suspended as the department looks into an allegation that he inadvertently sent a nude photo of a woman to a television news station.

Officer Troy Harris, a nine-year veteran who has served as a spokesman for the department since 2002, was suspended Friday morning by the director of the public affairs section and the police commissioner, the agency confirmed. Citing the issue as a personnel matter, officials declined further comment.

Sources said Harris was trying to send a mug shot of a criminal suspect to a general newsroom e-mail account at WBAL-TV on Thursday night and attached a cell-phone photo of a woman that had been saved to the hard drive of his city-issued computer. Michelle Butt, WBAL's news director, said police "consulted our newsroom about an e-mail we received from a city employee last night" and interviewed several people from the station.

She declined further comment.

Bad cop, bad cop, watcha gonna do when they come for you?
Michelle Butt.