Related News: Hartford PD: Sexual predator operation a success

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One Wiregrass police department is taking to the internet to fight crime.

The Hartford Police Department is working along side Perverted Justice, a non profit organization, to catch online sex predators before they strike.

“Basically when they start talking or texting with someone on a website, and it turns sexually explicit or goes into the predator wanting to have sex or meet the child for sex, they will contact us,” said Lt. Tim Goad.

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Related News: Hartford police make child enticement arrest

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A Slocomb man faces felony charges alleging he enticed who he believed was a 15-year-old girl for an unlawful sex act.

Assistant Hartford Police Chief Ben Berry said Hartford police arrested 24-year-old Justin Colby Hutton on Friday, and charged him with felony electronic solicitation of a child and felony traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act.

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Related News: Army soldier charged with child solicitation

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Hartford police made their second arrest within a three-day period as part of an ongoing child solicitation investigation called Operation Guardian Angel.

Assistant Hartford Police Chief Ben Berry said police arrested Jabier Martinez, 26, of Dothan, Friday night, and charged him with two sexual assault-related felony charges.

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Related News: Sex crime suspect to remain out on bond

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Investigators with the Hartford Police Department arrested Graue on May 2, and charged him with felony traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act and felony electronic solicitation of a child.

Hartford Police Chief Annie Ward told the Eagle shortly after Graue’s arrest that the charges allegedly involved his arranging to meet someone he believed to be a 14-year-old girl through an online dating site. The arrest was made through an ongoing undercover investigation handled by the Hartford Police Department and the Perverted Justice Foundation.

“Since it was an internet-related sex charge, he was prohibited from having internet in his home or having a smart phone,” Smith said.

Smith said his client’s wife lives in Missouri, and due to her suffering from breast cancer and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) he’d found himself having to take care of her.

“He was forced to go there to help care for his wife after (the) caregivers quit,” Smith said. “He was just visiting and he was basically just there for a limited time to find a caregiver for his wife.”

Source: Dothan Eagle

Related News: Headland man charged with child solicitation

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Hartford police recently arrested a Headland man on child solicitation charges.

Hartford Police Chief Annie Ward said police arrested 33-year-old Fernando Carrazco-Casillas on Monday and charged him with felony traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act and felony electronic solicitation of a child for an unlawful sex act.

Source: Dothan Eagle

Related News: Health care executive charged with soliciting child in Geneva Co.

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An Atlanta healthcare executive was arrested last week and charged with soliciting a child for sex in Geneva County.

Michael Lee Graue, 58, is charged with electronic solicitation of a child. He was arrested Friday in the parking lot of Mom’s Kitchen in the town of Hartford.

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Related News: Hartford man faces child porn charges

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A Hartford man faces more than a dozen child pornography charges after Geneva County Sheriff’s investigators arrested him late last week.

Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Tony Helms said investigators arrested Christopher Wade Turner, 39, and charged him with 14 felony counts of possession child pornography.

Source: Dothan Eagle