AMESBURY — A former Amesbury police officer pleaded guilty to a prostitution-related charge yesterday following his arrest last year during a sting by Portsmouth, N.H., police, according to court documents. He was convicted in Portsmouth Circuit Court for the misdemeanor charge of soliciting prostitution.
Mark Valli, 51, of 3 Birch St., Newburyport, was fined $1,000 with $650 suspended, pending a year of good behavior, according to court documents.
On April 9, 2011, Portsmouth police arrested Valli when he arrived at a local hotel near the Route 1 rotary in Portsmouth expecting to pay a prostitute for sex. Instead, he and two other men were arrested.
Valli was an officer in Amesbury from the early 1990s to 2004.
The three were all charged with misdemeanor offenses relating to the solicitation of a prostitute.
The case had been scheduled to go on trial in November but was later rescheduled at the request of Valli.
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