Student used Internet chat rooms to arrange meeting for sex
An Arizona State University student was arrested Tuesday on charges of trying to arrange sex with a minor he met on the Internet, Tucson police said
Daniel Jed Poulsen, 22, was arrested on two counts of luring a minor for purposes of sexual exploitation and three counts of furnishing a minor with obscene material over the Internet, said Officer Dallas Wilson, a Tucson police spokesman.
Poulsen used Internet chat rooms to arrange a meeting for sex with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl, Wilson said.
Poulsen was arrested at his family`s home in Arizona City, which is between Eloy and Casa Grande in Pinal County. He was booked into the Pinal jail and awaits transfer to Tucson.
This is the second arrest by Tucson police in less than a week of men on charges of trying to have sex with a minor they met on the Internet.
The police investigations began after the department was tipped off by KVOA, Channel 4. The station`s reporters were working with an Internet watchdog group called Perverted Justice on a series of stories about men who use the Internet to solicit sex with minors.
Poulsen was one of the men who showed up at a house KVOA and Perverted Justice were using for the news story, said Sgt. Mark Robinson, a police spokesman.
Last week, William Corbett, 51, was arrested after a sting operation by police officers posing as a young girl in Internet chat rooms.
Corbett was charged with two counts of furnishing harmful items to a minor over the Internet and four counts of luring a minor for sexual exploitation. He is in jail in lieu of a $350,000 bond
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