Ex-Cop Who Shared Women's Nudes, Hacked Into Their Accounts Gets Sentenced In BurlCo

MOUNT LAUREL, NJ — A disgraced former Mount Laurel police officer who hacked into thousands of online accounts and distributed victims' nude images was sentenced last week to 12 years in prison.

Ayron Taylor, 25, of Moorestown, received the sentencing Sept. 5 after taking a plea deal earlier this year. In early 2024, a grand jury indicted him on 97 counts.

Investigation into Taylor began in September 2022 after the initial victim contacted Evesham police. A then-unknown person hacked into her Snapchat and Facebook accounts and accessed nude photos she had taken of herself.

The hacker then sent those photos to her Snapchat contacts, messaged them to her Facebook friends and posted them on her Facebook wall, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office.

As the investigation progressed, authorities determined that every victim had a student email account through Rowan College at Burlington County. Taylor illegally accessed about 5,000 RCBC accounts, authorities said.

College officials cooperated with the investigation.

Taylor accessed the private images of at least 20 victims — all female — and distributed them to people on each victims' contact list, prosecutors said last year. His indictment also included charges related to child pornography since some of the photos were taken when the victims were underage, authorities said.

Taylor became a full-time Mount Laurel police officer after graduating from the police academy in October 2021. He engaged in some of the illegal activity on his personal devices while on-duty as a patrol officer, prosecutors said.

When Taylor was first charged, the Mount Laurel Police Department immediately suspended him. Taylor resigned after measures were taken to fire him.

In February 2024, Taylor was indicted on the following charges:

• 54 counts of elements of computer theft (second- and third-degree)
• 21 counts of endangering the welfare of a child, including distribution of child pornography (second- and third-degree)
• 19 counts of invasion of privacy (second- and third-degree)
• two counts of attempted elements of computer theft (second- and third-degree)
• one count of official misconduct (second-degree)

He pleaded guilty in March to second-degree official misconduct and elements of computer theft.

County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw credited the high-tech investigators for identifying Taylor as the perpetrator.

"You cannot hide from us in cyberspace — we are there, too, and we know how to find you," Bradshaw said in a statement. "This was an extremely nightmarish invasion of privacy for these victims. It was made even more egregious by the fact that the person who was terrorizing these young ladies was a law enforcement officer."