DA: Cop covered bodycam to snap nude prisoners on his iPhone

On March 31, 2026, a rather odd complaint arrived at the Bucks County, Pennsylvania District Attorney’s Office. It came from the local sheriff’s office, and it concerned one of their own, Deputy Sheriff Ryan Gaffney. The allegation was unusual: Gaffney had used his iPhone to snap photos of nude prisoners he had encountered in his job—and he had then shared those photos with “several female civilian employees inside the Sheriff’s Office.” The main claim involved a local man suffering a mental health crisis on the morning of January 30, 2026. Five fully uniformed deputies had arrived at the house and were in the upstairs bedroom. Their detainee was naked from the waist down and had just been persuaded to put on some pants. At some point in this process, Gaffney was believed to have obtained a photo of the man’s genitalia, because after the arrest and booking, another deputy admitted that he had seen Gaffney showing the photo on his phone to a female civilian employee “in jest.” This same witness said that Gaffney had done something similar in late 2024, taking a photo of a “subject’s naked buttocks while in custody.” Investigators checked the logs from the Axon system. These showed that Gaffney did not access bodycam footage from the January incident for many months. So if Gaffney had shown a photo on his phone to the female employee on the day of the arrest, it must have come from some other source. Perhaps Gaffney had used his own phone? Yet his bodycam footage never showed it. Still, it did show him covering his bodycam’s lens with a hand for a few moments.