Utah
Charges: Utah man solicited sex from undercover agent’s ‘son’
A Tooele County man has been charged with requesting to have intercourse with an undercover officer’s fictitious son, in accordance with prosecutors. The person can be being investigated for allegedly touching an precise boy. (Motortion Movies, Shutterstock)
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SALT LAKE CITY — A person who police say tried to solicit intercourse for an undercover officer’s younger “son” now faces legal expenses.
And police say the investigation into an alleged intercourse abuse incident involving an actual little one is continuous.
Coty Joseph Evans Shumway, 26, of Grantsville, was charged Thursday in third District Courtroom with legal solicitation, a first-degree felony; and attractive a minor, a second-degree felony.
On Monday, Shumway contacted an agent with the Division of Homeland Safety who was working with the FBI Youngster Exploitation and Human Trafficking Process Pressure, in accordance with charging paperwork. The agent was “conducting an undercover chat operation utilizing numerous social media and courting purposes,” the costs state.
The spy made a put up that supplied “sexual entry to his 5-year-old son,” in accordance with the costs. Shumway responded and stated he’d wish to sexually assault the boy whereas he slept, the costs state.
Shumway and the agent made preparations to fulfill. When Shumway arrived on the designated location, he was taken into custody, in accordance with the costs. Whereas being questioned by investigators, Shumway stated he had additionally “dedicated hands-on sexual offenses towards a 7-year-old boy,” the costs state. That alleged incident remained underneath investigation Thursday.
Prosecutors have requested that Shumway stay in jail pending trial.