ALBANY, N.Y. - Former police officer and DARE officer Paul Pierce has been sentenced to six years in state prison Monday.
The East Greenbush man will also have ten years of post-release supervision and will have to register as a sex offender.
On May 2, Pierce pleaded guilty to two counts of Criminal Sexual Act 3rd-degree for engaging in repeated acts of sexual conduct with a then 16-year-old
boy at an Albany residence between June and September 2010.