Updated at 10:02 p.m., Tuesday, May 29, 2007
19-year-old faces Net sex charge
Advertiser Staff
Police detectives arrested a 19-year-old Pearl City man on suspicion of soliciting minors for sex on the Internet.The suspect allegedly had online communications with people who he thought were two 13-year-old girls, arranging to meet them at Manoa Marketplace to take them to a hotel room to have sex, according to the state attorney general's office.
The "girls" turned out to be police detectives on the lookout for Internet predators.
The arrest was part of a continuing, multiagency investigation into Internet solicitations.
Four people have been charged on O'ahu this year with trying to lure minors for sex via the Internet, legally known as "electronic enticement of a child."
Anyone with information about possible Internet crimes against children may report it to the state attorney general's investigative division at 586-1240.
Other agencies in the Hawai'i Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force include the Honolulu Police Department, FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
