ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. – A former Page County Sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to jail time after pleading guilty to the possession of child p0rnography and possession of child pprnography, second offense.

According to official court documents obtained for this story last year, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a CyberTip from a Verizon cloud-based storage provider on July 20, 2023.

The report included an image of what appeared to be an underage female, unclothed, and in an explicit pose. The image had been uploaded from a 434 phone number in mid-June.

On July 26, 2023, the Rockingham Sheriff’s Office, a member of the NOVA-DC Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, served an administrative subpoena to Verizon Wireless. The purpose was to obtain specific name and address information for the phone number identified in the complaint.

On August 1, 2023, Verizon formally identified the number as belonging to a Shadarryl Matthews Veney, of Grottoes. At the time of the incident, Veney, 40, had been a Page County Sheriff’s deputy for nearly two years.

On August 4, 2023, deputies requested a search warrant for Veney’s Terrance Run home, including any outbuildings and vehicles. Warrant paperwork for the August 8 search indicated that a total of 25 items were seized, including cell phones, iPads, smart watches, laptops, storage drives and a number of CDs.

At the time, according to Sheriff Chad Cubbage, Veney had been terminated immediately after the PCSO was notified of the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office search warrant. And although Cubbage confirmed that polygraph tests are no longer used in the PCSO hiring process, the sheriff said that Veney had received a thorough background check prior to his employment.

During a 2023 phone conversation with Cubbage for the original story, the sheriff stated that Veney had displayed no indication of improper activity during his employment with the PCSO. Veney’s pre-PCSO employment included working as a correctional officer with the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail and serving in the Army National Guard.

Cubbage stated that Veney’s role at the PCSO was that of a patrol deputy – a position designed to assist the community as a whole, and not specifically assigned to work with children.

“As an administrator, you can’t always know 100% that others will do the right thing. But handling those issues in the right way is important. And I think terminating this individual immediately demonstrated that,” said Cubbage in 2023.