PA Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 38

Randy Gregory was watching “COPS” Wednesday night when police officers swarmed his Delaware County home. He wondered if he had unpaid parking tickets or fines, never imagining that the police were there for one of their own - a state trooper who lived upstairs.

State Police Cpl. Albert Silveri III, a member of the collision/accident-reconstruction team with Troop K in Philadelphia, was arrested for allegedly using his state-issued laptop computer to solicit sex from a 33-year-old mother and her 8- and 10-year-old daughters.

As it turned out, the mother he solicited for three months was an undercover detective with the Delaware County District Attorney’s Office.

Silveri, 39, who used the screen name “StrongWilled07,” allegedly approached the detective in a chat room. Police said they traced the screen name back to Silveri through his Internet-service provider.

According to the arrest affidavit, in his online conversations with the detective, Silveri suggested that the woman introduce him to her daughters as a “friend of mommy’s.”

Silveri, of Thomas Road near Concord in Aston, said he’d like the kids to show him their toys and rooms before he’d fondle one of them, the affidavit said.

“[H]ave you there to keep her assured,” he allegedly wrote. “[T]ell her she is being good, perhaps have the other sitting with you . . . on your lap, make sure you both are watching.”

Silveri allegedly wrote that he’d have one of the girls put her hand on his genitals. The adults, he said, would tell the girl that it is a “special game” where she needs to “rub extra hard.”

He even suggests that the mother should be sexually “warming up” one daughter while he performs various acts on the other.

Silveri said that he and the woman should perform sexual acts in front of the kids before they join in and imitate.

“[T]he nice thing with having you there . . . is that I can demonstrate things on you,” he allegedly wrote. ” ‘[H]ere is what a big girl likes’ . . . ‘here is how a big girl makes me happy.’ ”

Silveri asked what he would be allowed to do with the children and if there would be “limits.”

“Im not into any really weird stuff,” he allegedly wrote, “like crapping on someone or cutting them or that sort of stuff.”

But for Silveri’s neighbors, the horrific allegations against him were weird and disturbing enough.

“I think it’s sick,” neighbor Nicole Heck said. “I know he’s a cop but did he think he was God? He’s not invincible.”

Heck and her friend, Stephanie Powers, said cars of undercover officers were hard to miss on their block Wednesday afternoon. As nighttime fell, everyone wondered who the police were there to see, Heck said.

“He was the last person we would think of - ever,” Powers said.

But no one was more surprised than Kim Yost, who along with Gregory, her fiance, and her 14-year-old daughter, live directly below Silveri’s apartment.

Yost said she and Silveri have been friends for years and that she’d let her daughter sleep over at his apartment when his nieces came to visit him.

“I’ve been in tears all day because I can’t believe this,” she said. “I never thought he would jeopardize his job and his life for something like this.”

Yost said Silveri lived alone and was a dedicated state trooper who often worked overtime and always seemed to be on call.

“I always felt very safe knowing he was up there. I won’t turn my back on him until I know if he’s guilty or not,” she said. “But I have a 14-year-old daughter and if it’s true, I can’t be friends with him.”

According to Silveri’s affidavit, it was his job that kept him from meeting Monday night with the “mother” and her “daughters” at the Wawa on MacDade Boulevard in Ridley Township.

After missing the meeting, he wrote to the “mother” to tell her that his day went poorly at work but that he was still interested in getting together, court documents said.

Two days later, Silveri was arrested. A search warrant was served on his home and computers, and digital devices and his gun were taken, neighbors and investigators said.

He was arraigned yesterday on two counts of solicitation to rape a child and seven related offenses. He was remanded to the Delaware County Prison in lieu of $250,000 bail, District Attorney G. Michael Green said.

Lt. Timothy McDonald, Troop K commander, said he hadn’t spoken with Silveri since his arrest but that he had discussed the incident with other troopers at the barracks.

“This is a reflection of an individual and not an agency,” he said.

Major Len Bandy said Silveri, who is suspended without pay, became a state trooper in 2000. Records indicate that he was promoted to corporal in April 2007.

“It’s certainly a sad day for the Pennsylvania State Police,” Bandy said. “But everyone in society must be held accountable . . . In this case, sadly, it led to a member of the state police.”

Authorities said the investigation will scrutinize whether Silveri sent any messages while at work.