Porn video sent to six airport workers

A pornographic video that led to last week’s temporary suspension of Spokane International Airport Police Chief Peter Troyer was forwarded to six airport security workers, according to documents obtained under the state public records act.

The raunchy video, titled “Deep Throat of All Time,” was received on Troyer’s airport-issued computer on Nov. 3 and distributed the next morning.

On Thursday, in response to a public records request, the newspaper obtained additional e-mails and a computer disk containing the controversial video, which graphically depicts sexual contact between a naked woman and a man.

Computer forensic specialists hired in November by the airport board’s attorney were unable to determine whether Troyer deliberately distributed the video, said Neal Sealock, the airport’s new director.

Troyer, in an earlier interview, said he may have had a virus on his computer and didn’t deliberately send out the video.

He also said he asked the people who received it to delete it.

The airport’s newly released computer records identify Jay Edington as the person who sent Troyer the video. Troyer has previously described him as a friend.

A message from Troyer’s computer says the video was blind carbon-copied to the airport’s dispatch center, a police computer and six people who work with Troyer: Peter Hardt, Don Picht, Marty Hunter, Greg DesVoignes, Dave Mock and Neil Connors.

The forensic team was unable to confirm whether Troyer deliberately or accidentally sent out the video, Sealock said.

“(The investigators) couldn’t identify a computer ‘worm,’ so we assumed a keystroke did it,” he said.

On Jan. 5, Sealock suspended Troyer without pay from his $75,000-a-year job for one week, saying he had violated the airport’s strict policy prohibiting the transmission or viewing of obscenity on airport computers. Troyer returns to work next week.

“I stand behind the chief. He’s remorseful about this,” Sealock said.