Maricopa County, ARIZONA — In what has become all too familiar to detectives in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s animal crimes unit, yet another man has contacted an undercover Sheriff’s detective through a popular web site to arrange for sexual liaisons with various farm animals in exchange for sex with his own personal dog.
The sexual liaisons and subsequent arrest were to take place last week but car trouble and bad weather delayed the arrangement.
An investigation that began in September into 56-year-old James Allen Darland of Mount Vernon Washington, culminated this morning when Dorland made contact with an undercover detective posing as a farmer/ owner of several animals in the Wickenburg area.
The suspect requested to spend days on the farmer’s property solely for the purpose of having sex with the various animals provided including miniature horses, dogs and goats.
Dorland admitted to detectives on emails and in later phone calls that the selfdescribed married man has been having sex with his neighbor’s horse, dogs and sheep in the state of Washington for some time.
Dorland also stated he just retired from a nationally known package delivery company after working there for over 23 years and when delivering packages for the company, would often have sex with customers’ dogs while they were absent from the residence while on his route.
He also spoke of stray dogs that he would find on his route which he captured to use for sexual gratification.
The suspect personally met up with the Sheriff’s undercover detectives today at a location near Wickenburg where he talked in detail about what sex acts he had recently committed with his own dog and what he planned to do with an unneutered male dog the detectives brought to the scene.
Shortly after he regaled the detective of stories about his delivery route days where he unabashedly engaged in sex with customer’s pets, Sheriff’s detectives quickly arrested him. (The meeting was recorded.)
Sheriff Joe Arpaio says “We clearly confirmed his intentions to commit this crime by statements, recorded phone calls and videos, e-mails and actions witnessed by my detective, leaving no doubt in his mind that Darland fully intended to carry out his perversion by committing the crime of bestiality.”
Darland was booked on Conspiracy to Commit Bestiality (Class 6 Felony) and placed in the 4th Avenue Jail. A search was executed for Darland’s dog. His dog was seized in the course of the investigation and transported by Animal Crimes Detectives to the Arizona Humane Society for evaluation to determine whether the animal had been sexually abused.
