B.C. Craigslist ad leads to luring charge
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 | 4:56 PM PT
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Vancouver police set up a sting after seeing a lurid ad on Craigslist. (CBC)A West Vancouver man has been charged in a police sting after allegedly using the internet to lure a young teenage girl for sex, police say.
Richard Christopher Garcia was arrested by Vancouver police Aug. 12 and has been charged with one count of communicating via a computer to lure a child under 14, Const. Jana McGuinness said Tuesday.
Investigators monitoring the internet noticed an ad on Craigslist in which a man was seeking to meet a school-age girl for sexual purposes, said McGuinness.
She said an officer posed as a 14-year-old female and struck up an online relationship with the man, who allegedly exchanged emails of a sexual nature with the officer.
Arrangements were then made between the two to rendezvous and an arrest was made at the meeting location.
McGuinness said Garcia, 42, was not previously known to police and has been released on bail with conditions that require him to avoid contact with females under 16 and not to use a computer or cellphone.
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