MARTINS FERRY, Ohio -- About three months after the Martins Ferry police chief was sentenced to jail in connection with a celebrity surrogate scandal, the man now in charge of the department is the focus of a different investigation.

A Target 9 Investigation revealed documents detailing pornography found on a computer inside the Martins Ferry Police Department.

One of the officers accused of having some of the porn -- Phil Hartman -- not only remains on the job, but he's not been reprimanded and was named lieutenant in charge.

NEWS9 came across the information when a reporter went through public documents after former Chief Barry Carpenter was convicted in connection with a celebrity surrogate scandal.

Most of the information is about Carpenter, which came out during court proceedings. However, the transcripts of interviews between state investigators and several Martins Ferry police officers revealed other issues within the department like pornography, accusations of time cards being falsified and a lieutenant asking someone to admit to a crime without knowing if they committed the act or not.

"It's very disturbing to me to know things were done in that department that I didn't know about," said Martins Ferry Mayor Phil Wallace.

The list of allegations is lengthy, and there is one name that's brought up repeatedly in the transcripts: Lt. Phil Hartman.

In interviews conducted by the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation in July, transcripts show Hartman made many admissions.

When an investigator asked Hartman if he knew how pornographic pictures got on then-chief Carpenter's computer, Hartman said, "Not all those pictures are mine -- just so you know, just a couple."

Hartman told the investigator that he'd not been "having a real good marriage over the past two or three years so I've kind of been talking to a couple girls." He said he "just asked them if I could see their breasts or anything and, you know, and they sent them to me."

In the documents, more questions surround Hartman as he admitted to doing former chief Carpenter a favor when the surrogate scandal began to unfold. The request was a call to a mutual friend asking him to write a statement that he was in the surrogate's home after Carpenter was there. According to documents, Carpenter wanted the man to say that the items reported stolen were inside the home at the time. This could have ultimately cleared Carpenter's name.

Hartman said he initially told Carpenter he didn't know anyone who would incriminate themselves on paper and said that person would have to be an idiot to do so. However, Hartman told investigators he changed his mind and made the call after more pressure from Carpenter, but the man refused to write the statement.

The documents also include interviews with other officers who accused Hartman of falsifying timecards by punching into work then going to the gym to work out.

The mayor said he is unaware of that happening. The safety director would only confirm changes were made to how officers punch in and out several years ago after an investigation. He would not comment on whether specific officers were involved in any wrongdoing.

The documents show Hartman doesn't always see eye-to-eye with the mayor. He said he "jumped on the mayor’s ass" when he tried to find out if his officers had anything to do with the surrogate scandal.

Wallace, the mayor, said he does not recall that incident, but the mayor said he does remember issuing Hartman a written reprimand on the day of Carpenter's sentencing because Hartman was on-duty and left his assigned post to attend court.

No further action was taken against Hartman, officials said.

Currently, Hartman remains the highest-ranking official in the department, something the mayor said happened by default because City Council let an ordinance die that would have let him name an interim chief.

NEWS9 has made repeated attempts to contact Hartman over a series of days. As of Wednesday afternoon, Hartman had not returned those calls.

A jury previously found Carpenter guilty of receiving stolen property, theft in office and tampering with evidence. He was sentenced to two years and eight months in jail and is now serving time at the London Correctional Institute.

Prosecutors maintained that Carpenter wanted to sell items and pictures he took when in the surrogate’s home to tabloid photographers. Carpenter is appealing his conviction.

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