State police employee gets probation for deleting friend's records

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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. -- A judge has granted a special form of probation that may result in charges being dismissed against a state police employee accused of deleting a friend's arrest files.
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Sharyn Lemley, an office assistant with the state police's Bureau of Identification, was granted accelerated rehabilitation by Middlesex Superior Court Judge Thomas O'Keefe on Friday, The Middletown Press reported.

If Lemley successfully completes two years of probation, charges of commission of a computer crime and two counts of unlawful removal or altering of records would be dismissed.

The probation program is for first-time offenders charged with less serious crimes.

Lemley, 34, of Rocky Hill, was accused of deleting her friend's criminal charges from the state police's computerized database while at work at the agency's Middletown headquarters on June 18.

Lemley told detectives she accidentally "struck the delete key on her computer while (her friend's) files were on the screen," the affidavit supporting her arrest says.

Lemley remains on paid administrative leave pending the completion of an internal affairs investigation, state police spokesman Sgt. J. Paul Vance said Monday.