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Police charge 7 after running sex sting over internet

MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — Prince William County Police have arrested seven men after running an internet sting operation targeting individuals seeking sexual contact with minors. Police announced Monday a weeklong operation in which detectives posed as juveniles on social media. Police say the seven men who were arrested solicited sex acts and agreed to meet…

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FILE - In this June 23, 2005 file photo, Neshoba County circuit judge Marcus Gordon, explains to reporters his considerations in sentencing Edgar Ray Killen to 20-year terms on each of three counts of manslaughter for the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers in his Philadelphia, Miss., courtroom. Gordon died Thursday, May 26, 2016 at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson, Miss. He was 84. Gordon sentenced Edgar Ray Killen to 60 years in prison after a mixed-race jury convicted the reputed former Ku Klux Klan leader of manslaughter in the 1964 kidnap-slaying of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
FILE – Neshoba County circuit judge Marcus Gordon, explains to reporters his considerations in sentencing Edgar Ray Killen to 20-year terms on each of three counts of manslaughter for the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers in his Philadelphia, Miss., courtroom. Gordon died Thursday, May 26, 2016 at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson, Miss. He was 84. Gordon sentenced Edgar Ray Killen to 60 years in prison after a mixed-race jury convicted the reputed former Ku Klux Klan leader of manslaughter in the 1964 kidnap-slaying of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — Prince William County Police have arrested seven men after running an internet sting operation targeting individuals seeking sexual contact with minors.

Police announced Monday a weeklong operation in which detectives posed as juveniles on social media.

Police say the seven men who were arrested solicited sex acts and agreed to meet the undercover detective at a location in Prince William County, where they were arrested.

The men who were arrested range in age from 20 to 58. Six are residents of northern Virginia; one is a Maryland resident. They face charges including solicitation of prostitution and using a communication device to facilitate an offense against a child.

 

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