Why do you think they call it ‘Perverted Justice’?

Talk about a shell game.

On Sunday, the head of the Clark County School District Police Department was quoted in the paper as saying he believed some unnamed federal agency was handling the criminal probe into whether a school district employee had used his office computer’s webcam to stream images of himself masturbating to a person who was posing as a 13-year-old girl.

"We can't do anything since it's (the alleged crime) crossed state lines," shrugged School Police Chief Filiberto Arroyo, right. "As far as we're participating, it's currently an active administrative personnel case. I can't discuss our segment of it."

Today is another day, another story.

A school district mouthpiece is quoted as saying the matter was fully investigated and sent to the district attorney's office, which declined to prosecute.

To which the district attorney replies, not so.

Someone is wrong, mistaken, misspeaking or lying. Take your pick as to who and which.

The whole thing began a year ago, according to Sunday’s Review-Journal account by Mike Blasky, when the Iron County, Utah, sheriff’s office used a decoy from a private group called Perverted Justice to troll online chat rooms for potential child molesters.

Utah police say a man using the screen name "braymyfld" approached decoy "drama princess444" in a Yahoo chat room. Between Jan. 15 and Feb. 2, 2010, "braymyfld" asked the “girl” whether she would like to watch him have an orgasm on his webcam. The chats took place after normal work hours.

The police report quoted the man as writing, "I just showed you my (expletive) though. and you liked, it. at 13 you liked looking at (expletive)." The report said he identified himself as "darren" and gave a school district phone number and extension that belonged to an accountant named Darren Boyett, 45. There was a brief telephone conversation and investigators traced the IP address to Boyett's office computer.

A school district spokesman now says school police met with "several" deputy district attorneys this past fall who "determined there was insufficient evidence to attribute the misconduct to the CCSD employee."

District Attorney David Roger said police may have met with someone from his office but no “case” was submitted for prosecution.

Though the case has lain fallow for a year, according to Blasky’s follow up story today, his Sunday story apparently prompted some posterior-covering phone calls.

In a press release, the school system now speculates someone "with the proper password, which is well-known,” could have tapped into the system’s wi-fi network.

Utah authorities now say they can no longer comment because the case is now an active one and they can’t talk about active cases.

Is it? Or isn’t it?

Sounds like it might be time for Metro or the feds to investigate. Not the alleged crime but …

Why does the school district even have its own police department?

Here is an interview with a guy from Perverted Justice from a couple of years ago: