Baghdad, Iraq ? A U.S. officer accused of aiding the enemy for allegedly providing an unmonitored cell phone to detainees while he commanded an MP detachment at a jail is a 51-year-old from Virginia, the military said Friday.

Army Lt. Col. William H. Steele, a reservist serving full time, faces nine charges in all, including fraternizing with a prisoner’s daughter, storing and marking classified material, maintaining an inappropriate relationship with an interpreter and possessing pornographic videos.

Steele was detained in March and is being held in Kuwait pending an Article 32 hearing, the military equivalent of a grand jury hearing, officials said.

U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. James Hutton said Steele is 51 and is from Prince George, a county just south of Richmond, Va.

Steele was a 1973 graduate of Beall High School in Frostburg, Md., according to the school’s Web site.

The alleged incidents took place from October 2005 to February 2007, starting when Steele was commander of the 451st Military Police Detachment at Camp Cropper on the western outskirts of Baghdad and in his later post as a senior patrol officer for the provincial transition team headquarters at Camp Victory, the main U.S. military base.