From November to early December, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office used decoy social media accounts for online child luring investigations.
During the investigation, deputies posed as underage children on various online social media platforms and were contacted by an adult male who was offering to meet for sexual encounters, according to Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office Detective Sergeant Jason Spano.
“On Dec. 2, 58-year-old Danny Hicks, of Dallas, Oregon, was arrested and charged with the crimes of luring a minor, online sexual corruption of a child in the second degree, encouraging sexual abuse of animals, and attempted using a child in display of sexually explicit conduct,” Spano said. “At the time of his arrest, Hicks was already lodged at the Lincoln County Jail with similar charges stemming from a similar investigation conducted by the Lincoln City Police Department.”…