Ex-TV Cop Estrada Fights Online Predators

A '70s TV icon is using what's left of his star power to help police track down online sexual predators.

Erik Estrada appeared before the Virginia Legislature Wednesday to ask lawmakers to pass a bill that would generate almost $2 million to help fund two Virginia task forces. The groups hunt down and arrest people who use the Internet to prey on children.     

Estrada is best known for playing motorcycle cop "Ponch" on the hit 1970s television show "CHiPs."

What a lot of people don't know is that he's a real cop now -- a sworn deputy -- who works for the Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

We smell a "Steven Seagal Lawman" spin-off.

In rather blunt terms, Estrada told reporters if lawmakers saw images of infants being raped and tortured like he had, they would make sure investigators had the money to go after predators.

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