Officer Says Former Colleague Sought Revenge On Web Site

A local police officer said a former colleague got revenge on him on the Internet.

The colleague is now facing charges.

While it’s believed that much of the information written about undercover Robinson Township police Officer Matt Maritz on DontDateHimGirl.com is false, it may not be removed from the Web site as soon as he would like.

DontDateHimGirl.com is a Web site used as a way for women to get back at men they don't like.

But according to state police, it was also used by a local man to get one woman to stop dating Maritz by allegedly posting fraudulent about Maritz on the dating Web site.

Police arrested part time civilian Edgeworth police dispatcher Robert Joseph Panek.

State police executed a search warrant at Panek's home in Ambridge and confiscated his computer.

On it they found evidence of harassment and stalking and numerous movies of child pornography.

Panek faces charges on 50 counts of child pornography and two counts of stalking and harassment.

Panek is in the Beaver County Jail on $50,000 cash bond.

Maritz and his Chief Dale Vietmeier are now hoping to clear Maritz's name.

In a conference call to Web site founder, Tasha Joseph, she told Channel 11 and Maritz's lawyer, Jim Hankle, that she has reason to believe that more than one person posted those e-mails and that she communicated with some of the people who did.

Hankle said he believes that Panek had access to several computers and was able to submit all of the e-mails.

Johnson said, “We don't want our Web site to be used for illegal and slanderous purposes ... wonders why they weren't called into the investigation.”

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