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PROVO — At least two men face criminal charges following a weekend undercover sting in Utah County by authorities looking for online predators.
Alexander Julianna Sanchez, 20, of Orem, and Abraham Blair Fitch, 38, of Kaysville, are each charged in separate cases in 4th District Court with attempted rape of a child, a first-degree felony, and enticing a minor, a second-degree felony.
Sanchez received an additional charge of attempted sodomy on a child, a first-degree felony. Fitch was also charged with criminal solicitation, a third-degree felony.
The FBI Child Exploitation Task Force and Lehi police conducted an undercover operation on Thursday. Agents posed as a 13-year-old girl on various social media apps.
Sanchez used the app Scout to meet females, according to charging documents, and talked to an officer posing as a young girl. After engaging in a sexually explicit conversation, Sanchez sent an Uber to pick up the “girl,” the charges state. He was then arrested by police at his Orem apartment.
Fitch contacted the undercover officer using the Whisper app, police say. After asking the “girl” if she was on birth control, Fitch drove from Kaysville to a designated meeting spot in Lehi where he was arrested, according to charging documents.
