UPDATE: Part-time Tunnel Hill police officer fired after reportedly traveling to Roswell to have sex with a minor

Published 12:29 pm Friday, October 13, 2017

A part-time Tunnel Hill police officer fired after he reportedly traveled to Roswell to have sex with a minor was still in his probationary period with the police department, a Tunnel Hill official said.

“I don’t know exactly how long he has been with the department,” said City Manager Blake Griffin on Friday. “It hasn’t been long, since some time this summer, I believe.”

Griffin said Abraham Flores Galvan had only worked a handful of shifts.

Galvan was “immediately terminated” from the department, Police Chief Roy Brunson said in a statement on Friday.

“Abraham Galvan is a part-time officer working limited hours,” Brunson said. “He is still under the probation period and due to the seriousness of the charges will be terminated immediately.”

Griffin said Galvan was an at-will employee.

“It’s just a matter of not putting him on the schedule (to work),” he said.

Galvan was arrested on Thursday at a shopping center on Woodstock Road in Roswell after he went there “with the intent to engage in sexual acts with a child under the age of consent,” according to Roswell police spokeswoman Lisa Holland. North Fulton SWAT officers assisted with the arrest, she said. He was charged with obscene internet contact with a child and enticing a child to commit an illegal act. He was being held in the Fulton County jail.

“The Roswell Police Department has been involved in a multi-agency undercover operation targeting online predators,” Holland said. “The goal of the operation was to arrest persons who use the internet to entice children for indecent purposes. During the operation, Abraham Flores Galvan initiated contact with an individual identifying themselves as being a child under the age of consent.”