A Phoenix man was arrested after he traveled to Pinal County to hook up with a Pinal County Sheriff’s Office detective posing as a minor female.
According to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO), detectives arrested 38-year-old Rick Morgan after he arranged to meet with who he thought was a 15-year-old girl he met online.
On January 28, Morgan traveled from his home in Phoenix to a location in Pinal County to meet with the girl for sex. That ‘girl’ was a PCSO Internet Crimes Detective conducting an undercover investigation using a fake persona.
“We are thankful this individual found our detective rather than one of our community’s children,” said Sheriff Mark Lamb. “To anyone with bad intentions, know that our detectives are out there. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.”
Morgan has been booked into the Pinal County Jail for Aggravated luring of a minor for sexual exploitation and Luring of a minor for sexual exploitation.