TOP OFFICIAL FOR OAK RIDGE SUBCONTRACTOR ARRESTED IN PROSTITUTION STING

A senior official with a Department of Energy subcontractor that provides search-and-detection dog teams at the Y-12 National Security Complex and other DOE facilities in Oak Ridge was arrested in late February on charges of patronizing prostitution, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel. Michael Terrance Hartmann, 60, of Knoxville, the field operations and training manager at Oak Ridge-based K9 SOS, allegedly offered $100 to an undercover police officer that he contacted off of the website backpage.com for “sexual favors.” NNSA spokesman Steven Wyatt declined to comment, and a K9 SOS official also declined to say whether Hartmann had faced any disciplinary action, the News Sentinel said. Hartmann oversees 11 canine detection teams operating in various locations at a DOE plant in Oak Ridge, according to his biography. He has an April 9 court date for a misdemeanor charge of “patronizing prostitution within 100 feet of a church.”