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LOGAN — A Logan man faces six charges of enticing a minor, a second-degree felony, after police detectives say he messaged them while they were posing as 13-year-old girls.
Two Logan police detectives conducted an undercover operation via online chats from July 17 to July 31 to track down community members sexually exploiting children using the internet, charging documents state.
Detectives found David Jonathan Elliott, 34, making posts to a group called "age gap relationships," according to charging documents.
"In my training and experience performing online undercover chats, users who make reference to age or age gaps in almost any capacity are commonly interested in minors/children," a Logan detective wrote in the affidavit.
Each of the detectives messaged Elliott pretending to be different 13-year-old girls, and each detective received sexually explicit messages from Elliott, including him asking to meet up with them to perform sexual acts, whilst thinking they were teen girls, the affidavit states.
During an Aug. 29 police interview, Elliott admitted to sending explicit messages not only to the detectives but also to minors outside of the sting operation, according to charging documents.
Elliott was booked into the Cache County Jail on Aug. 29 and is scheduled to appear in court Monday.
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