MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Police released an edited interview from last year that shows a former Oklahoma state senator denying that he took a 17-year-old to a motel for sex.

Moore police released the video interview with then-Sen. Ralph Shortey on Tuesday, The Oklahoman reported.

The video shows police reading graphic messages Shortey allegedly sent to the victim under a fake name. Shortey is seen denying that he sent the messages, saying that the two had communicated by phone but there were "no sexual intentions that night."

Shorty resigned last March after he was arrested on state charges of enga...