LYNNWOOD, Wash. -- Lynnwood police set up a sting to arrest a man who had set up a meeting at a park to have sex with a 15-year-old girl.
According to police, the man claimed to be 34 when he started contacting the teen in a chat room. He asked to move the conversation to Snapchat and sent sexually explicit photos to the girl, they said.
The girl's mother discovered her daughter had been involved in sexually explicit conversations with the man and reported it to police.
Investigators said the man repeatedly tried to get the teenager to meet him for sex. Detectives obtained a search warrant and assumed the girl's identity on the Snapchat account. They set up a sting at a local park on June 2 and arrested the man who turned out to be a 39-year-old man from the Edmonds area.
Detectives have written search warrants for the suspect's phones, computers and residence searching for any other possible victims or crimes. He was booked into the Snohomish County Jail.
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