From TampaBay.com

NEW PORT RICHEY — A few weeks ago, a man started getting photos of his ex-wife in the mail. The photos showed her lying in a bed, naked and unconscious.

Authorities say the photos were taken and sent by a Pasco County detention deputy.

Brian Dale Pratt, 51, took the photos with his cell phone camera on Feb. 13, deputies said, while the woman was passed out, having drank too much at a party. Deputies did not disclose the woman's identity or her relationship to Pratt due to the nature of the case.

Pratt's handwriting matched the writing on the envelopes that held the photos, a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report states.

Pratt told deputies he took nude photos of the woman vomiting in her bathroom after the party, then he put her in bed.

Asked if he took photos while she was unconscious, Pratt told the deputies, "I don't remember if I did or didn't," an arrest report states.

The report also says Pratt showed the photos on his cell phone to "an associate" about a month ago and told that person "he plans on sending the nude photos of the victim to the victim's ex-husband and boyfriend as revenge."

Pratt has been working for the Sheriff's Office since June 2009. He has no prior disciplinary record, said sheriff's spokesman Kevin Doll.

Pratt was arrested Tuesday on a charge of lewd and lascivious video voyeurism. He has since been released after posting $150 bail.

The arrest was made weeks after the offense because the case was being investigated by the State Attorney's Office, Doll said. Pratt has been placed on paid administrative leave.