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PROVO — A man was arrested by the Utah County Sheriff’s Office Special Victims Unit after setting up a meeting to have sex with someone he believed was a 13-year-old girl, officials said.
Bobby Halldorson, 50, originally made contact on Nov. 16 with an undercover investigator who was posing as a 13-year-old girl, according to Utah County Special Victim’s Unit Sgt. Jason Randall. Halldorson began chatting online around 9 p.m. and “immediately brought up the topic of sex and made it very clear that he wanted to have sexual relations with this 13-year-old child,” Randall said.
Halldorson then set up a meeting for the next morning and booked a hotel room, Randall said. He was arrested around 10:30 a.m. Thursday and booked into the Utah County Jail on suspicion of enticement of a minor over the internet, a second-degree felony.
“A lot of these conversations go on for months,” Randall said. “This conversation ... from the time of the initial conversation to the time of the arrest was 13 hours. Which is fast. Which, for us, it’s fairly indicative that we are dealing with a fairly serious predator.”
