‘Desperate’ sheriff’s deputy takes to porn for cash but resigns when exposed

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A Colorado sheriff’s deputy resigned this week after officials learned she’d appeared in pornographic videos — a second career she took to “out of desperation” over mounting bills.

Shannon Lofland, a 21-year veteran of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, told CBS News Colorado that she turned to the seedy world of adult cinema because her finances had soured and she couldn’t keep up.

“I was desperate, I was drowning,” she told the station. “I found a legal, lucrative means for providing that support for my family that I needed at that time to save my home for them and feed my family.”

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But the sheriff’s office began an internal investigation after the agency learned about her off-the-clock job — which Lofland said she’d only worked for about a month.

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The department didn’t say how it learned about the videos, but Lofland admitted she’d probably broken internal regulations that require advance authorization for employees looking to work side jobs.

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But the 44-year-old wife and mother — who ran the department’s driving academy — claimed she was pushed to do the half-dozen sex scenes because of rising debt, high interest rates and spiraling costs.

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In part, that came from a June 2023 storm that left her home with $500,000 in hail and water damage that insurance wouldn’t cover; sky-high interest rates that tripled her adjustable-rate mortgage and led to foreclosure; and increasing utility, gas and food costs.

She’d drained her savings, borrowed money from her family and cut spending, she told CBS. But the debt collectors kept calling.

“My actions have been made out of desperation,” Lofland said, adding that her husband supported her decision.

“Some may judge and say there are ‘better’ ways to make money, but at the time I had no other lucrative means for doing so.”

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