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A 35-year-old Mountain Home man is jailed on a $75,000 bond, after he allegedly set up a meeting with a 14-year-old Missouri boy to engage in sexual activity.
Michael Adam Johnson was booked into the Baxter County Detention Center shortly after noon Thursday after being arrested by special agents from the Arkansas State Police (ASP) Criminal Investigation Division.
According to a news release from ASP, Johnson allegedly lured what he thought was a teenager into the meeting, but was communicating the entire time with a Missouri Highway Patrol trooper assigned to the Drug and Crime Control Division. The trooper, posing as a teenager, had engaged in an internet conversation with Johnson, who subsequently propositioned the undercover officer and arranged the meeting in Mountain Home for the purpose of engaging in sex.
ASP special agents executed search warrants Thursday on Johnson’s property and are continuing their investigation to determine whether the MH man had arranged similar meetings with actual minor age victims, or committed other internet sex crimes.
Johnson is charged with one count of internet stalking of a child, (Class Y felony). Class Y felonies are the most serious classification of crime in Arkansas not punishable by death.
Troopers from the Arkansas State Police Highway Patrol Division and Mountain Home Police Department officers assisted state police special agents in the arrest.
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