A former Allentown police officer will spend five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to distributing child sex abuse material in South Carolina.

Douglas Perdick was arrested in March 2022. According to court records, an FBI agent operating covertly online in November 2020 accessed a group and found a link posted by a user that led to a file containing sex abuse images. The link was traced to Perdick’s internet address at his home in Conway, South Carolina.