A 27-year-old man was arrested in Columbia, Missouri, on December 15. He was accused of solicitation of a minor. The man was charged with attempted enticement of a child and second-degree attempted statutory sodomy. Police claim that the man encountered a detective...
Online Solicitation Of A Minor
Alleged sex crimes case may hinge on witness credibility
A man from St. Charles has been accused of attempted sexual trafficking of a child under age 18, attempted promotion of prostitution and attempted statutory rape. Police allege these sex crimes were committed when the man asked a woman to arrange a meeting with a...
Missouri man facing long prison sentence over online sex crimes
A man from Marysville, Missouri, who was scheduled to go to trial this week for his alleged participation in sexually explicit online chats with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl instead pleaded no contest to the charges. The man was in fact chatting with a...
Crusade against online crime heats up in California
Part of the difficulty in tracking down suspects of cybercrime in Missouri or anywhere else in the country is determining jurisdiction--that is to say, when a suspect is in one state but his activities cross state lines, prosecutors are sometimes unsure where to bring...