News Release



For further information please contact:

Sgt. Jason Clark

(573) 522-0980

DDCC02-17

February 17, 2005



EMPHASIS: Subject pleads guilty to Child Molestation 1st Degree







Captain Ron Replogle, Director of the Division of Drug and Crime Control (DDCC) announces Brian K. Eckhoff age 26, of Potosi, Missouri, pled guilty to Child Molestation in the First Degree in Washington County today. Eckhoff was arrested on January 12, 2005 as a result of a joint investigation by Special Investigator Denise Brown of the Washington County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office in cooperation with an Investigator and Polygraph Examiner of Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control. A sentencing hearing has been set for May 2, 2005.