A Gordon County man is behind bars after allegedly arranging to have sex with someone he thought was a minor, police said.
Gary Cleveland Fuller Jr., 40, of Calhoun, was arrested Monday after communicating for weeks with a Floyd County police officer who was posing as a child online, Sgt. Chris Fincher said.
Police were alerted to Fuller during a multistate child exploitation operation conducted by the GBI over the past few months, Fincher said. That operation netted at least 82 arrests across eight states, including more than 30 in Georgia, GBI agents said at the time.
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“We were assisting in that investigation and this started as a result of that,” Fincher told AJC.com. “Part of that is posing as children and chatting with these predators who solicit children for sex.”
Fuller furnished obscene materials to the officer he thought was a minor along with a list of sexual acts he wished to perform, the Rome News-Tribune reported. The interaction occurred between May 1 and May 20, police said.
Fuller is charged with aggravated child molestation/criminal attempt, electronically furnishing obscene materials to minors, enticing a child for indecent purposes, obscene contact with a child, possession of child pornography, use of a computer to solicit a child to commit illegal acts and pandering, according to police.
He is being held at the Floyd County jail.
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