Part-time police officer arrested after taking inappropriate photos, videos of children at YMCA

A part-time police officer in Pennsylvania was arrested on Thursday after he was caught taking inappropriate photos and videos of children at a YMCA late last month, according to the Chester County District Attorney’s Office.

Authorities said Mark Mackrell, 52, who worked as a part-time officer for the Millbourne Borough Police Department in Delaware County, was charged with photographing a sexual act, stalking, unlawful contact with minors and related offenses, following an incident on July 22.

According to the Chester County DA’s Office, police were notified of a “suspicious condition” at the YMCA on Airport Road in East Goshen Township the day after the incident, July 23.  A mother told police that her 14-year-old daughter and her 13-year-old friend believed they were being filmed while they played at the YMCA pool on July 22…

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