Saturday, July 07, 2007

14th suspect nabbed in N Ky Internet sex sweep

Highland Heights police and the sex crime-fighters at Perverted Justice snared another suspect Friday in a net that, since April, has hauled 14 men into court, all accused of attempting to meet young teenagers for sex in Northern Kentucky.

Friday afternoon, police arrested a 43-year-old western Kentucky man in the Lowes hardware store parking lot on Alexandria Pike, where they said Randy Stone had arranged to meet what he thought was a 13-year-old girl for sex.

But the teen-ager was actually an adult decoy at Perverted Justice, a nonprofit group that works with law enforcement nation-wide to catch sexual predators through on-line chatrooms.

Highland Heights Police Chief Carl Mullen said Stone has been talking on-line with the decoy since April and had actually first made the five-hour trip from his home in Alma, Ky., to meet the girl on Thursday.

This from the Cincinnati Post.

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