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North Texas firefighter accused of soliciting sex online with 'teen'
08:43 AM CDT on Thursday, August 7, 2008
A 25-year-old Lake Worth firefighter has been arrested on charges that he solicited sex online from an undercover Fort Worth police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl.
Jeremy Blake Barrera was arrested without incident Wednesday morning at his Benbrook apartment, police said. Officers also seized a laptop computer from his vehicle and a desktop computer from inside his apartment.
Police said the investigation began with a June 23 conversation between Mr. Barrera and an undercover vice officer in a Yahoo chat room that quickly turned sexual in nature. According to police, Mr. Barrera requested to meet the officer to have sex.
Mr. Barrera faces a second-degree felony solicitation charge. He was being held at the Mansfield Correctional Facility in lieu of $7,500 bail, police said.
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