Overview
- NSW Sex Crimes Squad detectives arrested a 22-year-old man in Tocumwal after an undercover operation that targeted suspected online grooming.
- Detectives say they posed as a female child online and engaged the suspect as part of an investigation that began in May.
- Police executed a search warrant on Wednesday and seized electronic devices that they allege contain child abuse material.
- The man was taken to Finley Police Station, charged with multiple offences including using a carriage service to procure underage sexual activity and possessing child abuse material, and remains in custody pending a bail hearing.
- The arrest forms part of Strike Force Trawler, the ongoing NSW Police effort that uses decoy accounts and digital forensics to identify and build cases against people accused of internet-facilitated child sexual exploitation.