Cop’s racy side hustle lands her in hot water

A Colorado sheriff’s deputy resigned this week after officials learned she’d appeared in pornographic videos.

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, said she turned to starring in porn because her finances had soured and she couldn’t keep up, New York Post reported.

“I was desperate, I was drowning,” she told CBS News Colorado.

“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.

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.

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

Shannon Lofland, a 21-year veteran of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, resigned after her porn videos surfaced. Picture: Arapahoe County

“It was a violation of policy to not request permission to work secondary employment,” she said.

“I know that, and I knew that … it could be considered a double life.

“There are many deputies and officers doing what they can to make extra money, with or without permission. People are doing what they can to survive at this time.”

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 spiralling costs.

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.”

She said she made enough money to cover the mortgage, and the industry was “professional” enough that she never experienced any pressure or coercion.

The sheriff’s office declined to comment, telling CBS that “due to privacy and due process issues, we are not able to respond to any specific questions.”

Lofland, a 44-year-old wife and mum, made the videos because she was “desperate” for cash. Picture: X

But Lofland said she loved her job on the force, which she resigned from Tuesday.

“I found my niche in the law enforcement world as a support role,” she said. “I have been dedicated and loyal. I truly enjoy what I do and all of the lives I have been able to touch.”

She also worked on the state’s Peace Officer Standards and Training board, but stepped down several weeks ago.

“I’m not going to waste the resources of the sheriff’s office to do an investigation for something that, yes, I participated in,” Lofland said.

She’s not sure what to do next — and hasn’t ruled out making more adult videos, CBS said.

It’s not the first time Arapahoe County has been hit with such a scandal — about three years ago, Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant Melissa Williams was forced from her job after colleagues discovered her secret OnlyFans account.

“I was in shock and panicking because I never wanted these two parts of my life to collide,” Melissa Williams, then 46, said of her 2021 resignation.

“My personal sex life was entirely separate and never affected my ability to do my job,” she said, adding that she “felt like my bosses were policing my bedroom.”

This story originally appeared on New York Post and reproduced with permission